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Read it. Learn it. Understand it.

I really admire the way you immediately follow a demonstration of your inability to comprehend plain English with this advice to others.

All you've done is dodge my question.

Let's see, what was your question...Oh yes,

If she wasn't making this argument, then you'll need to explain why the Minor court said:

The Fourteenth Amendment did not affect the citizenship of women any more than it did of men. In this particular, therefore, the rights of Mrs. Minor do not depend upon the amendment. She has always been a citizen from her birth and entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizenship. The amendment prohibited the state, of which she is a citizen, from abridging any of her privileges and immunities as a citizen of the United States, but it did not confer citizenship on her.

Because they were demonstrating that citizenship did not necessarily entail suffrage. Again--as the court stated in the part I quoted--Minor wasn't claiming that the 14th made her a citizen, but rather that, because it prohibited a state from abridging the privileges of a citizen, Missouri could not deny her the right to vote. The court pointed out there had always been citizens who couldn't vote, so clearly voting wasn't a privilege of citizenship.

Remember, the court said "The question is presented in this case whether, since the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, a woman who is a citizen of the United States and of the State of Missouri is a voter in that state" and "The direct question is therefore presented whether all citizens are necessarily voters." Why would they say that if the question was whether the 14th made her a citizen, as you claim?

Let's make this easier for you to read and harder to dodge:

The amendment prohibited the state, of which she is a citizen, from abridging any of her privileges and immunities as a citizen of the United States, but it did not confer citizenship on her.

Do you understand what the words "did not confer citizenship on her" means??? If Minor wasn't claiming to be a 14th amendment citizen, why did it specifically say the 14th amendment did not confer citizenship on her??