Fifteenth Amendment

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkbp:adoptedBy February 3, 1870
gptkbp:appliesTo United States citizens
gptkbp:category gptkb:Reconstruction_Amendments
gptkbp:enforcedBy gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Sixteenth_Amendment
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Fifteenth Amendment
gptkbp:location gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:United_States_Constitution
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Fourteenth_Amendment
gptkbp:prohibits denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
gptkbp:proposedBy gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:ratifiedBy gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkb:Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
gptkbp:section 2
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.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Reconstruction_era
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4