18 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

ARTICLE XIX. 1

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress
shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

RATIFICATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION.

The Constitution was. adopted by a convention of the States, September
17, 1787, and was subsequently ratified by the several States, in the. follow-
ing order, viz:

Delaware, December 7, 1787.
Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787.
New Jersey, December 18, 1787.
Georgia, January 2, 1788.
Connecticut, January 9, 1788.
Massachusetts, February 6, 1788.
Maryland, April 28, 1788.
South Carolina, May 23, 1788.
New Hampshire, June 21, 1788.
Virginia, June 26, 1788.
New York, July 26, 1788.
North Carolina, November 21, 1789.
Rhode Island, May 29, 1790.

The State of Vermont, by convention, ratified the Constitution on the
10th of January, 1791, and was, by an act of Congress of the 18th of Feb-
ruary, 1791, " received and admitted into this Union as a new. and entire
member of the United States of America. "

RATIFICATIONS OF THE FIRST FIFTEEN AMENDMENTS
TO THE CONSTITUTION.

The first ten of the preceding articles of amendment (with two others
which were not ratified by the requisite number of States) were submitted

1 The nineteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed
to the Legislatures of the several States by the Sixty-sixth Congress, and was declared
in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated August 26, 1920, to have been rati-
fied by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States in the following order,
viz: Illinois, June 10, 1919; Michigan, June 10, 1919; Wisconsin, June 11, 1919; Kansas,
June 16, 1919; New York, June 16, 1919; Ohio, June 16, 1919; Massachusetts, June 25,
1919; Pennsylvania, June 27, 1919; Texas, June 28, 1919; Iowa, July 2, 1919; Missouri,
July 3, 1919; Arkansas, July 28, 1919; Montana, August 2, 1919; Nebraska, August 2,
1919; Minnesota, September 8, 1919; New Hampshire, September 10, 1919;. Utah, Octo-
ber 2, 1919; California, November 1, 1919; Maine, November 5, 1919; South Dakota,
December 4, 1919; North Dakota, December 5, 1919; Colorado, December 15. 1919;
Rhode Island, January 6, 1920; Oregon, January 13, 1920; Indiana, January 16, 1920;
Kentucky, January 19, 1920; Wyoming, January 27, 1920; Nevada, February 7, 1920;
Idaho. February 11, 1920; Arizona. February 12, 1920; New Jersey, February 17, 1920;
New Mexico, February 21, 1920; Oklahoma, February 28, 1920; West Virginia, March
13, 1920; Washington. March 22, 1920; Tennessee, August 24, 1920; Connecticut, Sep-
tember 14, 1920; and Vermont, February 8, 1921.