united-states constitutional-law us-constitution
Is the 14th amendment restriction on apportionment applied to women after the 19th amendment?
<p>Part of the second clause of the 14th amendment reads:</p>

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  <p>when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.</p>
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<p>However, in light of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote, this seems to now be a weird restriction based on a criterion of male-ness that is no longer applicable to voting rights.</p>

<p>Has the 19th amendment had any effect on how this section of the 14th amendment is interpreted?</p>

<h2>It would be interpreted if a gender neutral way</h2>
<p>All such gendered pronouns and descriptions in the Constitution (such as referring to the President As “he”) carry no gender restrictions in modern jurisprudence.</p>
