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A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
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Leser v. Garnett
1922 U.S. Supreme Court case on the constitutionality of the 19th Amendment
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