What is the Fifteenth Amendment?

The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees the right to vote irrespective of race, color or position of servitude.

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#RGTS334 What is the Nineteenth Amendment? (Rights and Amendments) The Nineteenth Amendment provided Woman's suffrage. That is, the right of women to vote.
#RGTS338 What is the Twenty-Third Amendment? (Rights and Amendments) The 23rd Amendment gives residents of the District of Columbia the right to vote for representatives in the Electoral College.
#RGTS341 What is the Twenty Sixth Amendment? (Rights and Amendments) The Twenty Sixth Amendment made the age a citizen can vote to be 18 years.
#RGTS339 What is the twenty fourth Amendment? (Rights and Amendments) The twenty fourth Amendment eliminated a "poll tax" which required payment in order for a citizen to vote.
#RGTS315 What is the Thirteenth Amendment? (Rights and Amendments) The Thirteenth Amendment abolished and prohibited slavery in all its forms within the United States or its territories.
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#LEG44 May all people vote to decide who shall represent them? (Congress and Representation) No. Only citizens of the state who are eighteen years of age or older may vote.
#POW156 Doesn't a citizen have a right to have his property, and to maintain his property without fear of confiscation? (Powers of Congress) Yes, a citizen has the right to have and maintain his property. However, God did not make men as property to be owned by other men.
#LEG46 Are there any persons unfit to vote? (Congress and Representation) There may be some, due to general ignorance or laziness, who should not vote. The law, however, allows people to vote so long as they are citizens who are of age.
#POW157 What made slavery illegal? (Powers of Congress) The Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution made slavery illegal. However, the fact that all men were not treated equally under the law was a great national sin, for which our country has paid dearly...
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#LEG47 How is the election conducted? (Congress and Representation) On a publicly announced and scheduled day, the people who are to choose, called voters, meet at various authorized locations called the polls: here, officials are stationed called inspectors, who over...