On Jul 3, 2012, at 10:45 PM, Okechukwu Ukaga wrote:
> It is pertinent to note that when the civil right laws were passed in the US a majority of Americans were against those laws too. Same thing with allowing women to vote.
Do you have any evidence to back up these assertions?
A quick google search give me data that approximately 60% of Americans supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it was passed.
Votes for women first happened state by state, so that by the time a federal Constitutional Amendment was voted by Congress there had already been a woman in Congress. State legislators in states that allowed women to vote were not about to turn down a woman's suffrage amendment.
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