And the fifteenth amendment
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—
My point precisely.
Number one, it is the fifteenth amendment. Two, there are numerous reasons for states to deny the vote to any number of people outside the mandated race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Crooks, morons, children, unregistered, wrong district, no picture ID, and women to name another controversial addition to the amendment list above and beyond the first ten.
The list goes on, and states do indeed reduce the number of voters. All is fine as long as they don’t refuse based on the mandated race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The narrower the list of authorized voters the easier it is to track dishonest or manipulative schemes to skew the results, and the better I like it.
Yes and made to include people who were not citizens at the time of the civil war. Crooks, etc, have rights removed from them due to punishment established through due process.
And your support of schemes to reduce the number of voters is, as I stated previously an elitist position. The ultimate result would be an oligarchy. Our forefathers did not establish such a form of government for us. The republican form of government is supposed to assure you, since it is a few individuals that actually produce the laws which govern. If you want blame, cast it upon the few that have passed the laws which take from one to give to another. It is not the people themselves that vote to take from others. And even if they did, it should be unconstitutional, however, the few decide that it isn't. We have examples of the people being right and their leaders thumbing their noses in the people's face. Proposition 8 in California is an example.