The Wyoming Constitution is the supreme governing document of the

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Wyoming Wyoming () is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the s ...

. It was approved by a statewide vote of 6,272 to 1,923 on November 5, 1889. It was last amended in 2008. It was the first constitution in the

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which explicitly gave women the right to vote (though an earlier

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constitution gave women who owned property the right to vote because of an ambiguity in its text). The Wyoming state legislature also approved this with minor changes in 1896. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wyoming-legislators-write-the-first-state-constitution-to-grant-women-the-vote Wyoming Constitution Gives Women Right To Vote

References

* {{USStateLists Wyoming law State constitutions of the United States 1889 establishments in Wyoming Territory History of women's rights in the United States