Democracy is a right that many people take for granted. It is the right of the people to choose their rulers. Without democracy, there would be no freedom. People would have no rights and the government would take what it wanted when it wanted. Democracy exists in the world today because a long time ago, an entire country fought for what it knew was right. The revolutionaries who defeated Great Britain for independence of the thirteen colonies wanted to escape the tyrannical rule of a monarchy. They succeeded. Today, the United States of America stand as the prime example of democracy at its finest. The USA protects the rights of its citizens, who allow themselves to be governed. The country also intervenes worldwide whenever necessary to make the globe safe for democracy. This protects countless rights. The most important among the rights citizens have is the right to vote.

The Supreme Court denied their claim saying that being a citizen does not automatically give a person the right to vote and that it was not unconstitutional for states to deny the vote to women. Eventually, states began to grant suffrage to women in order to enlarge their constituencies. By offering women the right to vote, politicians were garnering votes for themselves. Wyoming became the first state with voting rights for women in 1890. Within a decade, Utah, Colorado and Idaho followed suite. By the time women’s suffrage was granted by a constitutional amendment in 1920, 23 states already had referendums allowing women to vote in some form or another. That year, the 19th Amendment was ratified. It says:

“Blacks, free or slave, could not be citizens of the United States” (55).

This was based on a widespread belief that blacks were inferior and lacking in republican virtues. Yet, this would only stand in the way of suffrage for so long. As the free black population grew, so to did abolitionist sentiments. Northerners grew apprehensive about the idea of attracting more and more black migrants from the South who could compete for jobs at a lower wage. The best way to end the threat to their financial security was to push for the enfranchisement of African Americans.

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