15th Amendment
The fifteenth amendment is about voting. It prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote.
The 15th Amendment of the Constitution prohibits denying voting rights to people based on race or color
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The 14th amendment prevents states from denying any citizen equal protection under the law. No state may pass a law which would abridge the rights granted US citizens by the Constitution.
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
The fifteenth amendment of the Constitution.
Voting rights have not been established in one amendment. The number of amendments illustrate tendency by people in power to block voting rights. 1870: 15th amendment prohibits governments from "denying a citizen the right to vote based on color race, or previous condition of servitude." 1920: 19th amendment prohibits governments from 'denying a citizen the right to vote based on sex.' 1964: 24th amendment prohibits a poll tax or other type of tax be required before having the right to vote. 1971: 26th amendment minimum voting age to no more than 18 years of age. This amendment limited rights to vote, and was passed after colleg-age people protested the Vietnam war and practically brought the government down. Unratified 1985: Right of District of Columbia (home of congress) to elect representatives
the 14th amendment gave african american a citizenship and the 15th amendment it banned states from denying the vote to african americans
Slaves and ethnic minorities, stated as "The US Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
The 13th amendment officially rendered slavery and involuntary servitude unconstitutional, and the 15th amendment prohibited the national government and the state governments from denying the vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of involuntary servitude."