The Hungarian parliament is considering a proposal for the fifteenth amendment to the constitution, which introduces ...

The Hungarian parliament is deliberating on the proposal for the fifteenth amendment to the constitution, which would ...

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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 ...

Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution. The writers of the Fifteenth Amendment ...

This glimpse into the past highlights the thin connection that existed between citizenship and the right to vote, before Congress and the states ratified the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.