...a resolution ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, declaring that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Naturally all the Republicans...

...person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law. The Fifteenth Amendment merely provides that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Manifestly, therefore, neither...

...own, including private war among those who purvey to the craving for intoxicants. The final amendment, that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by Congress or by any state on account of sex, places women under the same constitutional...

...equal protection of the law. The Fifteenth Amendment merely provides that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Manifestly, therefore, neither of these amendments bear on the...

...politically proves how little heed is given to the constitutional amendments declaring that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was expected that the enfranchisement, following immediately...

...satisfy le state requirements, subject only to the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments which declare that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, sex, or previous condition...

...number of male citizens twentyone years of age in such states" ; and (2) that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The negative character 1 Senators of the United States were to...

...and even now it is misunderstood. This provided 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." His opposition to the amendment seemed at variance with his lifework....

...holding that conditions that existed before the Fifteenth Amendment, which provides that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, could not be brought over to the present day in disregard of this...

...Constitution of the United States, which decrees 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. Such is the condition which confronts us. As I have more than once...