U.S. Constitution (Fifteenth Amendment)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/U.S._Constitution_(Fifteenth_Amendment)
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkbp:adoptedBy February 3, 1870
gptkbp:appliesTo gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:debatedBy gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:enables federal enforcement of voting rights
gptkbp:enforcedBy gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:historicalName gptkb:Reconstruction_Era
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label U.S. Constitution (Fifteenth Amendment)
gptkbp:influencedBy Abolition of slavery
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:United_States_Constitution
gptkbp:precededBy U.S. Constitution (Fourteenth Amendment)
gptkbp:prohibits denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
gptkbp:purpose to guarantee African American men the right to vote
gptkbp:ratifiedBy three-fourths of the states
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
gptkbp:section 2
gptkbp:signedBy gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant
gptkbp:sponsor gptkb:Republican_Party
gptkbp:successor gptkb:U.S._Constitution_(Sixteenth_Amendment)
gptkbp:textBegins 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.
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:U.S._Constitution_(Sixteenth_Amendment)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7