Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is an American federal observance that recognizes the adoption of the U.S. Constitution and celebrates the privileges and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship for both native-born and naturalized citizens.

In our very divided political climate, it is easy to feel disillusioned. One may feel that things are so heated and confusing it is not worth getting involved on any level, including voting. The League of Women Voters of Bucks County would suggest you reconsider this position. In this article the League addresses some sentiments expressed by nonvoters after the 2020 election.

The women’s suffrage movement was the decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right. But on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.