Reconstruction, Felon Disenfranchisement and the Right to Vote: Did the Fifteenth Amendment Repeal Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment?

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel J. Chin
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
Felon Disenfranchisement ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right ◽  
Fifteenth Amendment

scholarly journals The Right to Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment.

1966 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 260
Author(s):  
Everette Swinney ◽  
William Gillette
Keyword(s):  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right ◽  
Fifteenth Amendment

From Slavery to Freedom

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Schor
Keyword(s):  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reconstruction Era ◽  
American Citizenship ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The One ◽  
Fifteenth Amendment

This chapter discusses changes introduced by three Reconstruction-era amendments and their consequences for the census. These amendments include the suppression of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865; the redefinition of American citizenship at the federal and state levels by the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868; and guaranteeing black men’s right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870. These amendments had two major consequences for the census: on the one hand, the end of the Three-Fifths Compromise; on the other, the development of the census itself into the instrument of control and sanction of the limitation of former slaves’ right to vote. The 1870 census thus had to measure with much difficulty both the distribution of the population for the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives and the enforcement of these amendments. States where the voting rights of blacks were denied would see their representation diminished accordingly.

scholarly journals The Right to Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

1966 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 602
Author(s):  
Ernest Isaacs ◽  
William Gillette
Keyword(s):  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right ◽  
Fifteenth Amendment

scholarly journals The Right to Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

1966 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 1456
Author(s):  
Vincent P. De Santis ◽  
William Gillette
Keyword(s):  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right ◽  
Fifteenth Amendment

scholarly journals Lest Congress Forgets: A Fellow's Walk and Institutional Partisanship in Contemporary Representational Politics

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (01) ◽  
pp. 257-259
Author(s):  
Tyson King-Meadows
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Public Response ◽  
Election Administration ◽  
Representational Politics ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right ◽  
Fifteenth Amendment

Perhaps the most underappreciated dimension in public response to the post-Bush v. Gorecontroversies involving state election administration and Supreme Court jurisprudence involving the right to vote has been the central role of Congress in enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment.

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