Was ending slavery, womens rights, and interracial marriage left up to the voters to decide?

Was ending slavery, womens rights, and interracial marriage left up to the voters to decide?Was ending slavery, womens rights, and interracial marriage left up to the voters to decide?
slavery - no, 13th amenment ended it


ban on inter-racial marriage - no, supreme court case, loving vs virginia ended it


women's rights - no the 19th amendment gave women the voteWas ending slavery, womens rights, and interracial marriage left up to the voters to decide?
States have to ratify Constitutional amendments. This is usually done by the state legislatures, so voters do not decide directly; their representatives do.


There is not, as far as I know, any amendment about interracial marriage. This is usually decided by individual states--but a state cannot have a law that is deemed unconstitutional. In other words, a state could not say that women can't vote--the Constitution says they can.


Edit: Sgoldperson, what on earth are you going on about? Nobody mentioned the Emancipation Proclamation, which most people realize did not free any slaves. And this is how the Constitution is set up; there is a process for adding amendments. Argue with the Founding Fathers.
Nice try but what you are really saying is that you don't trust the voters. Actually last I check slavery was truly ended BECAUSE THE CONSTITUTION. Check your history and you will see slaves were around AFTER 1865. You will see the Emancipation Proclamation only ';freed'; the slaves in the REBEL STATES. It was about POLITICS not about human rights. Anyway since it was a Constitutional issue then YES it was left to the voters, or at least should have been. Why don't you throw in ABORTION? It is the same type of Judicial Fiat that Homosexual Groups are trying to currently perform.





My point was that slavery was ended by the Constitution and yeah voters have an influence there. With Women's rights there is no way to try and say it is anything different. You say most know that the EP didn't free the slaves but I'd argue that. That's still what they were teaching when I was in school(up until I was in college) and most aren't going to take the time to learn otherwise, and I'm not even 30. Most still think the Civil War was really simply about slavery. Yeah some of us are more educated, but I wouldn't say most are because I go by the general population.
no if that was the case a lot of things would be different right now.





That is congress and the president that handle those things
No,





it was Congress that did that.