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  4. Session: 1869-01-11 12:00:00
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United States Fifteenth Amendment

The House of Representatives

The House of Representatives of the Fortieth Session of Congress

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Session 6505: 1869-01-11 12:00:00

Thomas Cornell from New York enters the House; H. Res. 399, H. Res. 402, and H. R. 1667 are proposed

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H. Res. 402

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Joint Resolution

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two thirds of both Houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three fourths of said Legislatures, shall be held as part of said Constitution, namely:

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Sec. 1. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge or deny toThe right of any male citizen of the United States of sound mind and twenty-one years of ageto vote shall not be denied or upward the equal exercise ofabridged by the elective franchise, subject to such registration laws as theUnited States or any State maby restablish, at all elections in of the State wherein he shall have actually resided frace, color or a period of revious cone year next preceding such election, except such of slavery of saidany citizens as shall hereafter engage in rebellion or insurrection, or who may have be or class of citizens or shall be duly convicf the United of treason or other infamous crimeStates.

Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce by proper legislation the provisions of this article.

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