Chap. 56.—A JOINT RESOLUTION rejecting the proposed amendment to the
‘Constitution of the United States on woman suffrage. (SJ R13]

Signed February 13, 1920.

Whereas, the sixty-sixth Congress of the United States of
America, in both houses by a constitutional majority of two-thirds
thereof has made the following proposition to amend the constitution
of the United States, in the following words, to-wit:

JOINT RESOLUTION

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Proposing an amendment to the constitution extending the right
of suffrage to women;

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of each
house concurring therein, that the following article is proposed as
an amendment to the constitution, which shall be valid to all intents
and purposes as part of the constitution when ratified by the legisla-
tures of three-fourths of the several states.

ARTICLE

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.

Therefore be it

Resolved, by the general assembly of the State of Virginia that
the said proposed amendment to the constitution of the United States
of America be and the same is hereby rejected by the general assem-
bly of the state of Virginia.
Resolved, that certified copies of the foregoing preamble and
resolution be forwarded by the governor of the State of Virginia
to the President of the United States, the Secretary of State of the
United States, the President of the Senate of the United States and
the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States.