How long do you think it would’ve taken women in the USA to have full suffrage? I think they would’ve gotten if eventually, but I think it would’ve come on a state by state basis. And they would’ve definately got it by 1945
Other thoughts?
It would have continued to be up for a vote on a yearly basis until it passed. So one year later, maybe two.
I disagree. IANA expert on the topic, but if it had failed spectacularly, the suffragists would have had to fall back & regroup. It might well have died at that point.
Not to say it coulldn’t have been re-started 20 or 50 or 100 years later. But that would be a fresh start with fresh people pushing a fresh set of details in a fresh environment. And against the baggage of a resounding defeat the last time.
Imagine for a moment that Obamacare had not been passed in any form. When do you think the idea of universal health care would next have been passed by Congress? Not just wished for by some citizens or whined about by some pundits or debated in Congress, but actually passed by both houses and signed into law?
I’d WAG that 40 years is probably the bare minimum delay for enough people to age out of politics to let a fresh crop consider the issue freshly.
I’m sure that by the 60s the Warren Court would have interpreted that the 14th amendment had granted women “equal protection” and decreed universal suffrage by judicial fiat.
Woman had already gained sufferage in something like a third of the states, and partial sufferage in most of the rest. I think this trend would’ve continued for a few years, with the high population NE and Midwest passing full sufferage and the resulting woman friendly politicians would’ve seen the 19th Amendment passed within a few years of any initial failure.
And I don’t think we really need to wonder what would’ve happened had the 19th Amendment had been defeated. It was defeated multiple times 1915-1919, and rather then lick their wounds for a decade, the suffragettes kept pressing and turned a defeat into a victory within a fairly brief timespan.