| 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 - 1893 - 788 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1874 - 534 páginas
...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... | |
| Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1875 - 786 páginas
...consequent right to vote. The latter simply provides 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." But as to who are " citizens of the United States" this article is silent... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1876 - 894 páginas
...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 - 1876 - 436 páginas
...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 - 1876 - 416 páginas
...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... | |
| 1877 - 510 páginas
...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 - 1877 - 742 páginas
...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 - 1877 - 740 páginas
...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... | |
| |