Mrs. Virginia Minor was a natural-born American citizen [ of two American citizen parents ] from Missouri who had the audacity to try to register to vote. The registrar, one Happersett, refused because Minor was not “male”.


Minor sued in local court and the Missouri State Supreme Court, but she lost. She appealed to the United States Supreme Court claiming that she was a citizen of the United States under the Fourteenth Amendment and was entitled to vote. The Supreme Court agreed that she was a natural born citizen of the United States, but that didn’t make her eligible to vote.

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