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Paula Monopoli
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Distinguished University Professor and Sol & Carlyn Hubert Professor of Law
@UMDLaw
Feminist Legal History

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Thanks for reposting this article @ldodd.bsky.social! Section 2 of the 19th authorizes Congress to enforce the 19th. While legislation was introduced in 1920, it was never enacted. It’s time for Dems to introduce such legislation as a defensive move. @alsobrooks.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov
Important and very troubling overview about moves within the conservative movement that should be taken seriously. ⤵️
Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women.

I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com

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November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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This new painting will be at the Crane Estate art show this weekend in Ipswich, MA. Autumn Marsh, 20" x 20" encaustic on panel.
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#nature #marsh #encaustic #painting
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November 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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We’re thrilled to share that Paula A. Monopoli’s article in Volume 102 of Washington University Law Review was “highly recommended” by Professor Larry Solum on his Legal Theory Blog!

Please it here: wustllawreview.org/2025/09/02/a...
A “New” New Departure – Washington University Law Review
In the wake of enactment of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, women’s rights activists embarked on an exercise in popular constitutionalism known as “the New Departure.” Frustrated by the failu...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The result is generous, original, and fascinating—de-emphasizing the stories of the so-called Founding Fathers, and forwarding those of ordinary people, some of whom made constitutions of their own. We the People is also profoundly, indeed joyously, subversive.
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Constitution in Progress
In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Honored to give a scholars lecture on Women and the U.S. Constitution @constitutionctr.bsky.social in Philadelphia.
October 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“A ‘New’ New Departure” has been “highly recommended” on the Legal Theory Blog.
Monopoli on Women’s Rights and Popular Constitutionalism
Paula A. Monopoli (University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law) has posted A "New" New Departure (102 Washington University Law Review 1961 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the a…
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October 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Monopoli on Women's Rights and Popular Constitutionalism, buff.ly/uNwud41 - Paula A. Monopoli (University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law) has posted A "New" New Departure (102 Washington University Law Review 1961 (2025)) on SSRN.
Monopoli on Women's Rights and Popular Constitutionalism
Paula A. Monopoli (University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law) has posted A "New" New Departure (102 Washington University Law Review 1961 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In the…
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September 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Make no mistake - the firestorm over Tylenol and autism is deeply related to the abortion debate and the larger conversation about the "responsibilities" of American motherhood and women's status.
September 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Honored to be named Distinguished University Professor @umaryland.edu
September 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Cast of characters countdown to pub day, number 45: Madeleine Doty, author and journalist, specialist in prison reform and pacifism; egalitarian marriage to Roger Baldwin in 1919. #TheRadicalFund
August 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
On this 105th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s ratification, it says much about the state of our democracy that some in government are tacitly endorsing repeal of the 19th - ratification of which scholars have described as the largest single expansion of democracy in our nation‘s history.
August 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
On the 105th anniversary of ratification of the only sex-equality amendment we’ve got, check out #JulieSuk on new constitutional paths forward. #Enforcethe19th.
“Even if we formally have the right to vote and we formally have equality,” legal scholar Julie Suk explains in the first episode of Looking Back, Moving Forward, “the entire infrastructure by which women have been excluded from real participation in decision making and power, that continues.”
'Misogyny Is a System': Julie Suk Wants to Reimagine U.S. Institutions—and Build a Democracy of Equality
'Misogyny Is a System': Feminist Scholar Julie Suk Wants to Reimagine U.S. Institutions — and Build a Democracy of Equality
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August 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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By looking back at these historical sources that preserve both the struggles and the determination of American immigrant women to have their voices heard, we can shine a light on the challenges facing our democratic process today

Thread by Erin Wiebe
August 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I'm getting super excited about my upcoming solo show at Blue Door Gallery in York, Maine. The opening is in 6 weeks: Sept 13, 5-9 pm. Hope to see you there if you live in the area!!
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This new collection of encaustic landscapes is loaded with color and texture.
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#maineart #painting #encaustic
August 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“This year we saw the first decline in two decades of women in the House of Representatives, which I find really shocking, and it’s due to all those constraints in our polarized, rigid system. The only way that we’re really going to address that and tackle that is to change the electoral system.”
July 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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On this day of 1976, the first female midshipman arrived to begin training at the U.S. Naval Academy. Congress ordered the academy to stop excluding women, after women filed suit in 1973. #WeTheMen
July 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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On this day in 1913, women in Illinois won the right to vote for President, the first such victory east of the Mississippi River. Illinois preserved other sex-based disenfranchisement until the 19th Amendment’s ratification in 1920. #WeTheMen
June 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
June 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
A great day at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law graduation where we were inspired by @sifill.bsky.social profound call for our students to hew closely to their oath as attorneys and frame a new chapter in our constitutional republic.
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May 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Must-see art in Paris! See my latest art blog for paintings you won't want to miss if you are traveling to Paris this summer, including the spectacular David Hockney retrospective. This is blog 1 of 2.
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#art #Paris #travel #painting
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Read it here: www.marciacrumleyart.com/blog/paris-a...
May 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Still Unfazed by Loud Men

“I told him I’d see him in court. Well we did see him in court, and we won,” Gov. Janet Mills said.
May 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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On this day in 1894, the Supreme Court heard In re Lockwood. Belva Lockwood, a pioneering attorney & 1884 presidential candidate, challenged VA’s refusal to admit her to the state bar. She lost, even though VA’s statute explicitly authorized admission to “any person” admitted elsewhere. #WeTheMen
April 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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On this day in 2025, the League of Women Voters Declared that the United States is in a "Constitutional Crisis."

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LWV Declares United States in a “Constitutional Crisis,” Announces New Initiative to Mobilize Voters | League of Women Voters
On April 17, 2025, the nonpartisan League of Women Voters took the step of labeling our current moment a “constitutional crisis.” Concurrently, LWV announced a new initiative, Unite and Rise 8.5, to m...
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April 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM