Book description
In Constitutional Orphan, Professor Paula Monopoli explores the significant role of former suffragists in the constitutional development of the Nineteenth Amendment the woman suffrage amendment ratified in 1920. She sheds new light on the connection between the suffragists as institutional actors in civil society and the emergence of a "thin"…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Constitutional Orphan as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I liked this book for its resurrection of a long-forgotten amendment—the one about women.
This author redeems what has been wrongly labeled an “irrelevant” amendment and reveals how the Nineteenth Amendment was challenged in its aftermath. Some women were still discriminated against on the basis of race, while the majority of states refused to extend voting rights to related political rights of public office and jury service.
Even though I teach this subject, I learned much from this impeccably researched book that details the history of women as constitution makers.
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