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Section 1
The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Section 2
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Ratification
Amendment 19, known as the Equal Rights Amendment (or the Susan B. Anthony Amendment), was introduced in Congress in 1868. It was passed on June 4, 1919, by a vote of 56 to 25, and ratified on August 26, 1920. Women, of course, were at the forefront in getting the Nineteenth Amendment passed:
America’s woman suffrage movement was founded in the mid 19th century by women who had become politically active through their work in the abolitionist and temperance movements. In July 1848, 200 woman suffragists, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, met in Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss women’s rights [particularly “their sacred right to the elective franchise,” as stated in their Declaration of Sentiments]. …the Seneca Falls Convention … marked the beginning of the woman suffrage movement in America….
The first national woman’s rights convention was held in 1850…. In 1869, the national Woman Suffrage Association was founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to push for a woman suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Another organization, the American Woman suffrage Association, led by Lucy Stone, was formed in the same year to work through the state legislatures. In 1890, these two groups were united as the national American Woman Suffrage Association. That year, Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote.
…By 1918, women had acquired equal suffrage with men in 15 states, and both the Democratic and Republican parties openly endorsed female enfranchisement.1
Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive (Bull Moose) Party was the first national political party to have a plank in support of woman’s suffrage.
Family Breakup
Before addressing Amendment 19’s provision for women to vote, it is important to reemphasize that the entire election process is unbiblical and fraught with problems. Yahweh’s2 patriarchal system, whereby male leaders are nominated and then appointed by lot, eliminates any possibility of women leading the nation. (See Chapter 5 “Article 2: Executive Usurpation” for a more thorough contrast of the United States Constitutional Republic’s unbiblical election process with Yahweh’s system of appointments by lot.)
If the Constitutional Republic’s exclusive male vote wasn’t bad enough, the women’s vote presents an entirely new set of problems.
Yahweh intends husbands and wives to be one in all areas:
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. (Genesis 2:24)3
Generally, men vote with their heads and women with their hearts. Too often, the result is politically split households and, in turn, divided homes. In Matthew 12:25, Yeshua (Jesus’ given Hebrew name4) warned that such homes will not stand.
When God deals governmentally with the three institutions of society – church, state and family, he always deals with representatives freely selected by the people. This includes elders in the church, magistrates in the state, and husbands in the family. When Eve sinned, God went to Adam as the responsible party. A universal franchise flies in the face of this principle and puts men and women in a potentially confrontive [sic] rather than cooperative relationship.... In early colonial days, the basic governmental unit of the family was given a single vote. The vote was cast by the husband.... Rather than pitting men and women against each other, they found contentment in cooperating within the God-ordained roles assigned to each.5
Ironically, in the aftermath of the women’s liberation movement, politically split homes are less frequent. Instead, modern homes more and more resemble the tragedy found in Jeremiah 44:
Therefore now thus saith YHWH,6 the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain; in that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt…. Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? …Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, as for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of YHWH, we will not hearken unto thee. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven…. And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven … did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? (Jeremiah 44:7-19)
This narrative begins with both men and women “casting their vote” together. Later, the women have completely taken over in speaking for their households, and their “vote” has essentially drowned out the voice of their husbands.
Women Ruling Over Men
Amendment 19 and the women’s vote assisted in neutering America’s men, similar to what occurred in Isaiah 3 when Yahweh removed the men from their capacity as leaders and replaced them with women:
For, behold, the Lord, YHWH of hosts, doth take away … the mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them…. As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. (Isaiah 3:1-4, 12)
R.J. Rushdoony provided the following commentary on Isaiah 3:
Without the authority of the family, a society quickly moves into social anarchy. The source of the family’s authority is the father or husband (1 Cor. 11:1-15). The abdication by the father of his authority, or the denial of his authority, leads to the social anarchy described by Isaiah 3:12. Women rule over men; children then gain undue freedom and power and become oppressors of their parents; the emasculated rulers in such a social order lead the people astray and destroy the fabric of society. The end result is social collapse and captivity (Isa. 3:16-26), and a situation of danger and ruin for women, a time of “reproach” or “disgrace,” in which the once independent and feministic women are humbled in their pride and seek the protection and safety of a man…. Isaiah clearly saw the absence of the man’s authority as productive of social chaos.7
Yahweh took away the mighty men because there were no godly men qualified to lead Judah. It is likely that a dearth of God-fearing men in Judges 4 also caused Yahweh to use Deborah to work His sovereign plan and humiliate the men into repentance. In 2007, when Hillary Clinton was running for president, an Iowa news reporter asked an elderly farmer why he was voting for Clinton. He replied, “It’s time America had a woman president because none of the men have gotten it right yet!”
Nowhere in Judges 4 and 5 do we find any indication that Yahweh approved of Deborah’s ruling over Israel’s men. Consequently, her tenure must be assessed by what we find in the remainder of the Scriptures. She was an aberration from Yahweh’s patriarchal rule and, at least in principle, a curse to the men of Israel.
When coupled with Amendment 14 (which provides citizenship privileges), Amendment 19 inevitably led to women ruling over men as mayors, governors, representatives, senators, speakers of the House, and perhaps presidents:
Montana’s voting men gave women the vote in 1914, and together they proceeded to elect the first woman to the United States Congress two years later, Jeannette Rankin.8
This was in opposition to Yahweh’s patriarchal design:
…thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: And let them judge the people at all seasons…. (Exodus 18:21-22)
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you…. So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes … judges…. (Deuteronomy 1:13-16)
Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom YHWH thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren…. (Deuteronomy 17:15)
And of the Levites … his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges. (1 Chronicles 26:20, 29)
Her [the virtuous woman’s] husband is known in the gates [where the courts convened and law was dispensed], when he sitteth among the elders of the land. (Proverbs 31:23)
If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church [ekklesia]. I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? No, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? (1 Corinthians 6:4-5)
…I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man…. (1 Corinthians 11:3)
…your women … are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. (1 Corinthians 14:34)
…I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man…. (1 Timothy 2:12)
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife…. (1 Timothy 3:2)
…ordain elders in every city…. If any be blameless, the husband of one wife…. (Titus 1:1-2)
Scripture offers no support for women ruling as judges, elders, priests, or any other position of authority over man.9
Denying women the right to vote and rule over men does not demean women:
…the function of the woman in this aspect of God’s law-order is to be a help-meet to man in the exercise of his dominion and authority. She provides companionship in his calling (Gen. 2:18), so that there is a community in authority, with the clear preeminence being the man’s. Man’s sin is to attempt to usurp God’s authority, and woman’s sin is to attempt to usurp man’s authority, and both attempts are a deadly futility. Eve exercised leadership in submitting to the temptation; she led Adam rather than being led; Adam succumbed to the desire to be as God (Gen. 3:5), while acting as less than a man in submitting to Eve’s leadership.
But the authority of the woman as help-meet is no less real than that of a prime minister to a king; the prime minister is not a slave because he is not king, nor is the woman a slave because she is not a man. The description of a virtuous woman, or a godly wife, in Proverbs 31:10-31 is not of a helpless slave nor a pretty parasite, but rather of a very competent wife, manager, business-woman, and mother – a person of real authority.10
The statist school … basically trains women to be men; it is not surprising that so many are unhappy at being women.11
Instead of restoring women to their rightful place of authority beside man, women’s rights became feminism: it put women in competition with men. It led to the masculinization of women and feminization of men, to the unhappiness of both.12
Although opposed to Yahweh’s patriarchal system, Amendment 19 is perfectly congruent with the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:
Women in the USSR are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, government, cultural, political and other public activity.
Article 122, Constitution of the USSR
Women have the right to elect and be elected on equal terms with men.
Article 137, Constitution of the USSR
In many instances, Yahweh has taken away male leadership here in America and replaced it with women in homes, churches, communities, and government.
Under modern law, women are generally accorded the same rights as men, save that the husband remains nominally the head of the family.13
This is a curse upon the land.
…when it comes to civil government, God deals with representatives of the people, not the people as a whole [unless they do not hold their representing judges accountable for unlawful actions or judgments]. Likewise, in the church he deals with elders … and in the family he deals with the husband. This was the rationale for restricting the vote to male heads of households. The counsel of the wife was highly regarded due to her position as vice-regent within the family, but each covenant household was granted a single vote. That vote was cast by the husband – the covenant head of household – who was governmentally responsible before God.14
How much better yet would it have been if the framers had precluded elections in the first place? Yahweh’s system of appointment eliminates the possibility of a two-headed monstrosity (a divided home) or a one-headed monster (a woman-run household).
The Liberal Vote
Because women tend to vote with their hearts, Amendment 19 has contributed to America becoming much more liberal than it was before 1920. For example, women tend to vote against capital punishment and for gun control:
Women do consistently vote in a more liberal direction than men, but the differences have decreased over time and are negligible among Northern Democrats.15
Women are not voting more like men; men are voting more like women. This sounds like shades of Jeremiah 44. Yahweh’s system of appointment eliminates all liberal votes. It does not allow for liberals or, for that matter, even conservatives, but for only biblically qualified men of God. (See Chapter 5 “Article 2: Executive Usurpation” for a list of biblical qualifications for leaders.)
Amendment 19 conflicts with Yahweh’s patriarchal system. Yahweh does not permit women to serve in positions of leadership over men, except as judgment against men who are no longer mighty in the Lord.
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End Notes
1. “August 26, 1920: 19th Amendment adopted,” This Day in History, <http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/19th-amendment-adopted>.
2. YHWH (most often pronounced Yahweh) is the English transliteration of the Tetragrammaton, the principal Hebrew name of the God of the Bible. For a more thorough explanation concerning the sacred names of God (without resorting to unscriptural extremes), “The Third Commandment” may be read online, or the book Thou shalt not take the name of YHWH thy God in vain may be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for a suggested $4 donation.*
3. All Scripture is quoted from the King James Version, unless otherwise noted. Portions of Scripture have been omitted for brevity. If you have questions regarding any passage, please open your Bible and study the text to ensure it has been properly used.
4. Yeshua is the English transliteration of our Savior’s given Hebrew name. Jesus is the English transliteration of the Greek Iesous, which is the Greek transliteration of the Savior’s Hebrew name Yeshua, with which He introduced Himself to Paul in Acts 26:14-15. For a more thorough explanation concerning the use of the sacred names of God (without resorting to unscriptural extremes), “The Third Commandment” may be read online, or the book Thou shalt not take the name of YHWH thy God in vain may be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for a suggested $4 donation.*
5. Dennis Oliver Woods, “Governor Sarah Palin and the Biblical Role of Women,” America Betrayed, <http://www.america-betrayed-1787.com/index.html>.
6. Where the Tetragrammaton YHWH – the four Hebrew characters that represent the personal name of God – has been unlawfully rendered the LORD or GOD in English translations, I have taken the liberty of correcting this error by inserting YHWH where appropriate. For a more thorough explanation concerning the sacred names of God (without resorting to unscriptural extremes), “The Third Commandment” may be read online, or the book Thou shalt not take the name of YHWH thy God in vain may be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for a suggested $4 donation.*
7. Rousas John Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law (The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1973) pp. 200-01.
8. “Women’s suffrage in the United States,” Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States>.
9. When, in Numbers 12, Aaron and Miriam challenged Moses’ authority, only Miriam was struck with leprosy.
10. Rushdoony, p. 164.
11. Ibid., 184.
12. Ibid., p. 351.
13. H.B. Clark, Clark’s Biblical Law: Second Edition (Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1944) p. 221.
14. Dennis Oliver Woods, Discipling the Nations: The Government Upon His Shoulder (Franklin, TN: Legacy Communications, 1996) p. 154.
15. Susan Welch, “Are Women More Liberal than Men in the U.S. Congress,” JSTOR, <http://www.jstor.org/pss/440119>.
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