 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 788 pages
...plainer than does the mere reading of the provision: "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." There is no attempt to place limitations upon the power of the state, except... | |
 | 1901 - 1022 pages
...except for " infamous crime." 3. To obey the Federal Constitution, which provides that the right to vote " shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." To fulfill any two of these pledges would be an easy task, but to fulfill... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - United States - 1874 - 534 pages
...Fifteenth Amendment was adopted by Congress, providing 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. This clause, which was intended to confer the right of suffrage on the emancipated... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 894 pages
...respectively ; the fifteenth amendment to the federal constitution provides that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The executive power of each organized territory is vested in a governor, who... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - United States - 1876 - 436 pages
...Early in 1869, the Fifteenth Amendment was adopted by Congress, providing that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This clause was proclaimed by the President as ia part of the Constitution,... | |
 | William O. Bateman - Constitutional law - 1876 - 416 pages
...age or non-age, tax-payer, pauper, or convictfelon, is newly clothed with a 'right to vote,' which 'shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, — or the negative ground must be taken, that the amendment confers no right... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...whose effect is to produce the result forbidden. The qualification of the denial is that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." The language does not affirmatively confer the right to vote upon anybody,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - United States - 1877 - 742 pages
...Fifteenth Amendment was adopted by Congress, providing 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. This clause, which was intended to confer the right of suffrage on the emancipated... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - United States - 1877 - 740 pages
...Fifteenth Amendment was adopted by Congress, providing 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. This clause, which was intended to confer the right of suffrage on the emancipated... | |
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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. 
