...that all Negroes should necessarily be given an unrestricted access to the ballot; but that the right to vote should not be denied or abridged ' on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.' This amendment wiped out the color-line in politics so...

...proportionately reduced (Am. xiv., 1868). That " the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude" (Am. xv., 1870). Subject to these conditions every State may regulate the electoral franchise as it...

...or naturalized in the US to be citizens thereof; anil the third declaring that the right of citizens to vote should not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of slavery. A military board was appointed to inquire into the eligibility...

...the States, and in March, 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment, forbidding the voting right of citizens to be "denied or abridged on account of race, colour, or previous condition of servitnde," also became by similar acceptance part of the Constitution and binding on all the States....

...proportionately reduced (Am. xiv., 1868). That " the right of citizens of. the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude" (Am. xv., 1870). Subject to these conditions every State may regulate the electoral franchise as it...

...placed in Congress by the fifth section of the fourteenth amendment. " It prescribed that the right to vote should not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. That was the ultimate purpose of the second section of the...

...the former slaves to political quality with their masters by providing ithat the right of a person to vote should not be denied, or abridged, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. 226. Popular Expressions. — In 1688 seven of the English...

...79. The result of the Republican victory was the Fifteenth Amendment, which forbade the suffrage " to be denied or abridged on account of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude," the acceptance of which, as well, as of the Fourteenth Amendment, was now made the price of readmission...

...to the constitivtion, defining citizenship, and in 1870 by the fifteenth, declaring that the right to vote should not be denied, or abridged, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was just about forty years ago that the subject of woman's...

...History of the Fifteenth Amendment (pp. x, 126). The amendment passed in 1869 enacted that the right to vote should not be denied or abridged on account of race, colour or previous servitude. Reaction has taken many forms, which from time to time test the amendment in the law courts....