<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Superseded by </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> U.S. Const . amend . XIX (in part) </Td> </Tr> <P> Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Constitution did not grant anyone, and in this case specifically a female citizen of the state of Missouri, a right to vote even when a state law granted rights to vote to a certain class of citizens . The Supreme Court upheld state court decisions in Missouri, which had refused to register a woman as a lawful voter because that state's laws allowed only men to vote . </P> <P> The Minor v. Happersett ruling was based on an interpretation of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment . The Supreme Court readily accepted that Minor was a citizen of the United States, but it held that the constitutionally protected privileges of citizenship did not include the right to vote . </P>

What was the ruling in the 1874 supreme court case minor v.happersett