One would have thought that would be a sensible requirement, however in most democracies all but the nobility, serving criminals and the mad can vote.
You have to take a literacy test to be in order to vote
This refers to state government practices of administering tests to prospective voters purportedly to test their literacy in order to vote. In practice, these tests were intended to disenfranchise African-Americans.
A literacy test has never been illegal in and of itself. Requiring voters to pass literacy tests in order to vote was declared unconstitutional. It is unconstitutional because all citizens have the right to vote, regardless of their level of literacy. But the main point was that southern states used these laws as a method to prevent black voters from participating.
These measures were passed by southern states to disenfranchise African Americans and other minority groups from voting. They imposed barriers such as literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses to prevent them from exercising their right to vote.
the way the amendments demonstrate the ability of the constitution to adapt to in attitude about who should vote is by doing it.
Literacy Test (NovaNET)
Brazil and Uruguay in 1932. Ecuador recognized womens right to vote in 1929, but only provided that the women could prove literacy.
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they had to pay to vote
A poll tax was an amount of money that a person was forced to pay in order to vote. After the Civil War in the South, poll tax laws were created in order to prevent freed slaves from voting
In the late 19 century, the United States government allowed officials at voting placed to administer literacy tests, primarily to people of color, in order to vote. This was done to keep many black people and some poorer white people from voting.
In the late 19 century, the United States government allowed officials at voting placed to administer literacy tests, primarily to people of color, in order to vote. This was done to keep many black people and some poorer white people from voting.