Re:Restoring felon voting rights a 'mess' in battleground Fl...
by DrScump on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @05:29AM
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To clarify: After, but not as a result of. (See Amendments 19 and 26)
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Re:Restoring felon voting rights a 'mess' in battleground Fl...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @08:22AM
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Right, as a result of later amendments, hence why the penalty provisions of the 14th Amendment related to disenfranchisement don't take them into account.
(Sharp observers will note that race also wasn't explicitly a prohibited category until a later Amendment—the 15th—as the three civil war amendments, 13th-15th, were not ratified simultaneously despite being a related package, so blacks were considered in the disenfranchisement penalty clause before they had an individually-protected right to vote.)