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I think you're generally correct here. This is the reason it took constitutional amendments to give federally guaranteed suffrage to blacks and women AFTER the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified.

Of course today, with judicial activism, the 14th is held to even prevent states from blocking the enactment of "gay rights" ordinances or having a male-only military institute.

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