The right to vote of women was proposed seriously for the first time in the United States in July 1848, at the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. One of the women who attended that convention was Charlotte Woodward, who at that time was 19 years old. In 1920, when women finally won the right to vote across the nation, Charlotte Woodward was the only participant in the 1848 convention that still lived to vote, although she was apparently too ill to actually vote.
The Founding Fathers knew that as our country grew it would change, so instead of creating steadfast rules, they created a framework to follow which we call the United States Constitution.
