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Winning the Vote: A History of Voting Rights
Voting Rights on the Eve of the Revolution
The basic principle that governed voting in colonial America was that voters should have a “stake in society.”...
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Fourteenth Amendment ratified
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.” The amendment's Equal Protection Clause guaranteed that no state could “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Glossary Term – Event
Shelly v. Kraemer
In Shelly v. Kraemer, the Supreme Court reinforced the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of “equal protection of the laws" when it ruled that state courts could not enforce racially restrictive housing covenants.