This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.
Whatever the case may be, repealing the 19th Amendment won’t change a danged thing, since no state would dare to revoke womens suffrage.
Well if we can convince everyone that the 14th amendment was never properly radiated then the 19th amendment becomes the new “The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States” as spoken of in the currently numbered Twenty-first Amendment(would become the 20th).
Thus ending the Federal constitutional requirement that women be given the right to vote. This wouldn’t solve the issue of State Constitutional enfranchisement but it would give us a laboratory in which to make the case in practice.
Kill 2 birds with 1 stone I say.
Of course we will still have to deal with the new 17th amendment and we will have to keep at least 13 states from ratifying either a new Womens vote amendment or a new 14th amendment.