Issue:
Are women citizen under the Constitution? Under the Fourteenth Amendment, does citizen has privilege and immunities clause to vote? Or, is the Fourteenth Amendment only confined the right of suffrage to men?
Reasoning:
As the result of discussion, women are the citizen since they are born and naturalized in the United States. The Supreme Court explains that the state and federal law have treated women as citizens since the beginning.
Next, the court claims that women have no right to vote. Because in the Constitution, none of the Amendment had written down who should have the right of suffrage. The court explains that the power of giving citizens right to vote is belong to the States not the court. The court would change the law only if the law is determined wrong.
Finally, the Fourteenth Amendment is not only confined the right of suffrage to men alone. And the court explains that the men did not have any an advantage over the women. Every law is exactly applied to both of them.
Facts:
In the United States, all citizens can have their right to vote and no one, neither government, can deny their rights of being citizen. During the 1870s, women still did not have their right of suffrage. The women are the citizens of the United States since their birth, and the federal laws have treated them as citizens. Men have no advantage over women, neither the law. Therefore, women should have all the privileges and immunities of citizenship. According to the Fourteen Amendment, “…no State should make or enforce any law which should abridge the privileges or immunities or citizens of the Unites States.” And the fifteenth Amendment states, “The right of citizens of the Unites states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color or previous condition of
