Constitutional Orphan: Gender Equality and the Nineteenth Amendment

by Paula A Monopoli

In Constitutional Orphan, Professor Paula Monopoli explores the significant role of former suffragists in the constitutional development of the Nineteenth Amendment -- the woman suffrage amendment ratified in 1920. She sheds new light on the connection between the suffragists as institutional actors in civil society and the emergence of a "thin" conception of the Nineteenth Amendment as a mere nondiscrimination in voting rule, rather than a robust...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190092793
• ISBN13: 9780190092795
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"