CHAPTER 173
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 44
Ratifying the XIX amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 14, 1952
Agreed to by the Senate, February 21, 1952

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

JOINT RESOLUTION

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 con-
curring 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 legislatures 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”’.

Now, therefore, be it resolved by the General Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Virginia: ,

1. That the said amendment to the Constitution of the United States of
America be, and the same is hereby, ratified by the General Assembly of
the State of Virginia. |

2. That certified copies of this joint resolution be forwarded by the
Governor to the Secretary of State at Washington, to the presiding officer
of the United States Senate, and to the Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives of the United States.