The lower court decided against the Minors, and the pair appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court. The couple argued in their complaint that the 14th Amendment established women’s citizenship and that the Constitution “nowhere gives the power to prevent” citizens from casting ballots. Minor responded by filing a state lawsuit that her husband, attorney Francis Minor, had to co-sign because married women could not sue independently in Missouri until 1889. As she expected, registrar Reese Happersett blocked her because she was not a “male citizen of the United States.”Īt the time, Wagner said, laws in every state made it illegal for women to vote.
With the presidential election approaching, Minor tried to register to vote in St. “Part of what’s driving this is they’re angry,” she said.
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