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To: Elroy who wrote (357558)4/4/2010 1:42:36 PM
From: Alan Smithee3 Recommendations   of 793909
 
So how did women in the US get the right to vote?

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.

Even the Declaration of Independence is a creation of the US government at the time, no?

No. It was a declaration by members of the Continental Congress that declared that the 13 colonies were no longer a part of the British Empire but were in fact independent states. There was no United States of America in 1776. In 1777 the former colonies adopted Articles of Confederation that formed a loose confederation of the then-independent states.
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