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Amendment XV

Acts, Bills, and Laws, Right to Vote - 1870

Section 1.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2.

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Passed February 26, 1869. Ratified February 2, 1870.


See Background of the Fifteenth Amendment.

See Table of Amendments.

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1868 Constitution of Alabama, Articles XIV, XV, and XVI
... deem it necessary, may propose amendments to this Constitution, which proposed amendments shall be duly published in print at least three months before the next general election of representatives, for the consideration of the people; and it ...
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Poems, Series 1 by Emily Dickinson: XV.
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