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Cardozo Law Review

Abstract

Professor Xi Wang has offered us an altogether exemplary paper on black suffrage. Rather than trying to criticize it, I shall attempt to extend it by picking up where he left off. My main text is the Fifteenth Amendment. I would like to suggest that the best interpretation of the Fifteenth Amendment would read it as encompassing a cluster of political rights; the Amendment protects not only the right to vote, but also the right to hold office, the right to be voted for, the right to vote in a legislature, the right to serve on a jury, and even the right to serve in the military.

Keywords

Gender and the Law, Civil Rights, Politics (General), Voting, Constitutional Law, Elections and Voting Law, Fourteenth Amendment, Legal History

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination | Constitutional Law | Election Law | Fourteenth Amendment | Law | Law and Gender | Law and Race | Legal History

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