[Texas Eagle]

It was exactly this type of tortured reading of The Constitution that prevented blacks from voting for a hundred years after the 15th Amendment was ratified. "Established Law", anyone?

To wit: 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.

[Kaslin]

It’s a shame however that the American Indians had to wait until 1924 to get American citizenship granted