History of women's right to vote and Constitutional amendments

The automatic assumption should be that everyone has equal rights until stated otherwise.
1776 women already had the right to vote.
1787 US Constitutional Convention places voting qualifications in the hands of the states. Women in all states except New Jersey lose the right to vote.

1893 Colorado is the first state to adopt an amendment granting women the right to vote.
  Utah and Idaho follow suit in 1896,
Washington State in 1910,
  California in 1911,
  Oregon, Kansas,
 and Arizona in 1912,
Alaska and Illinois in 1913,
  Montana and Nevada in 1914,
New York in 1917;
Michigan, South Dakota, and Oklahoma in 1918.

I've heard some complain about those who wish the constitution was followed strictly.
They say that if it wasn't for the 19th amendment, women wouldn't have the right to vote.
Women already had the right to vote. Many women had the right to vote before 1920.
The states took their rights away.  Then women had to fight to get them back.
 I have no problem with the amendments (except the 16th); but, many amendments could have been dealt with by judicial action instead. Depending on who was in the supreme court at the time.