 In 1870 the fifteenth amendment, completing the group, declared that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.  Congressional Serial Set - Seite 5781901Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1893 - 788 Seiten
...plainer than does the mere reading of the provision: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged * * * on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." There is no attempt to place limitations upon the power of the state, except... | |
 | 1901 - 1022 Seiten
...except for " infamous crime." 3. To obey the Federal Constitution, which provides that the right to vote " shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." To fulfill any two of these pledges would be an easy task, but to fulfill... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1874 - 534 Seiten
...Fifteenth Amendment was adopted by Congress, providing that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. This clause, which was intended to confer the right of suffrage on the emancipated... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1875 - 786 Seiten
...consequent right to vote. The latter simply provides that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged * * * on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." But as to who are " citizens of the United States" this article is silent... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1876 - 436 Seiten
...Early in 1869, the Fifteenth Amendment was adopted by Congress, providing that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This clause was proclaimed by the President as ia part of the Constitution,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1876 - 894 Seiten
...respectively ; the fifteenth amendment to the federal constitution provides that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The executive power of each organized territory is vested in a governor, who... | |
 | William O. Bateman - 1876 - 416 Seiten
...age or non-age, tax-payer, pauper, or convictfelon, is newly clothed with a 'right to vote,' which 'shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, — or the negative ground must be taken, that the amendment confers no right... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1877 - 742 Seiten
...Fifteenth Amendment was adopted by Congress, providing that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. This clause, which was intended to confer the right of suffrage on the emancipated... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1877 - 740 Seiten
...Fifteenth Amendment was adopted by Congress, providing that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. This clause, which was intended to confer the right of suffrage on the emancipated... | |
 | 1877 - 510 Seiten
...whose effect is to produce the result forbidden. The qualification of the denial is that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." The language does not affirmatively confer the right to vote upon anybody,... | |
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