The Right to VoteNational Archives and Records Administration, 1987 - 26 pages |
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15th amendment 26TH AMENDMENT account of race aforesaid has become America in Congress appears from official article by appropriate Bainbridge Colby ballot caused the seal Chairman City of Washington Civil Rights Act Commission Congress begun constitutional amendment court finds day of January denied or abridged documents on file elections Elizabeth Cady Stanton enforce the guarantees enforce this article evidence or testimony figures as follows following article franchise freedmen hand and caused House of Representatives intents and purposes JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing laws legislatures of three-fourths NATIONAL ARCHIVES North Dakota official documents political subdivision poll taxes proposed as aforesaid Proposing an amendment pursuance of Section race or color Republican right of citizens right to vote Senate and House southern statute to enforce subdivision the court thousand nine hundred U.S. Army U.S. Constitution United States Code UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA vote on account voters voting age VOTING RIGHTS ACT West Virginia woman suffrage
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Page 21 - An act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States and for other purposes," do hereby certify that the amendment aforesaid has become valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution of the United States.
Page 25 - ... of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution...
Page 26 - Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey "New Mexico New York North Carolina...
Page 21 - Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming...
Page 25 - SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. SEC. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Page 26 - States; And further, that the States whose legislatures have so ratified the said proposed amendment constitute three-fourths of the whole number of States in the United States; And further, that it appears from an official document on file in this Department that the legislature of the State of New York has since passed resolutions claiming to withdraw the said ratification of the...
Page 25 - Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, extending the right to vote to citizens eighteen years of age or older.
Page 18 - That such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure may be enforced if the qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure has been submitted by the chief legal officer or other appropriate official of such State or subdivision to the Attorney General and the Attorney General has not interposed an objection within sixty days after such submission...
Page 25 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled (twothirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 25 - OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Know ye, That the...