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Proposition 4 of 1911 (or Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 8) was an amendment of the Constitution of California that granted women the right to vote in the state for the first time. Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 8 was sponsored by Republican State Senator Charles W. Bell from Pasadena, California.[1] It was adopted by the California State Legislature and approved by voters in a referendum held as part of a special election on October 10, 1911.
An earlier attempt to enfranchise women had been rejected by California voters in 1896,[2] but in 1911 California became the sixth U.S. state to adopt the reform.[3] Nine years later in 1920, women's suffrage was constitutionally recognized at the federal level by the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment prohibited both the federal government and all of the states from denying women the right to vote.
- ^ California Legislature, Final Calendar of Legislative Business, Thirty-Ninth Session (1911), p. 300.
- ^ "200 Significant Statutes and Constitutional Amendments of the 20th Century". Archived from the original on 2010-10-03. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
- ^ "California Women's Suffrage Campaign of 1911" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-14. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
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