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Constitution and Fifteenth
With the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, the power of the federal government to safeguard these rights was added to the Constitution, and this interpretation of Section Four became moot.
The Fifteenth Amendment ( Amendment XV ) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's " race, color, or previous condition of servitude " ( for example, slavery ).
After the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1870, giving African American men the right to vote, various women's groups also wanted the right to vote as well.
When Oklahoma was admitted to the Union in 1907, it had adopted a constitution which allowed men of all races to vote, in compliance with the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One ( section 8 ), its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment and its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment.
Bilbo was outspoken in saying that blacks should not be allowed to vote anywhere in the United States, regardless of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution.
The National Association was created in response to a split in the American Equal Rights Association over whether the woman's movement should support the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution .< ref name = wheeler > Wheeler, Marjorie Spruil.
In 1995, after a referendum, the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland legalised divorce.
* Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race
The nation was also called upon to enforce the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution | 15th Amendment, or the Darkey's millenium-40 acres of land and a mule, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.
Boutwell, as U. S. Representative, was instrumental in the passage and construction of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
Because the Fifteenth Amendment would have been superfluous if the Fourteenth Amendment ( the basis of the reapportionment decisions ) had conferred a general right to vote, he claimed that the Constitution did not require states to adhere to the one man, one vote principle, and that the Court was merely imposing its own political theories on the nation.
Morgan also staunchly worked for the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution that was intended to prevent the denial of voting rights based on race.
It was primarily due to his efforts and his colleagues lobbying that the Sharif's government had to make an amendment in the Fifteenth Amendment, which contained provisions, which were highly detrimental to the federal and democratic structure of the Constitution.
Following the passage of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution at the end of the Civil War, the Supreme Court would hear hundreds of cases involving conflicts over the constitutionality of laws passed by the states.
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