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Women and 18-21 year olds got the right to vote after the 14th Amendment To clarify: After, but not as a result of. (See Amendments 19 and 26)
by DrScump 7y ago
Women and 18-21 year olds got the right to vote after the 14th Amendment
To clarify: After, but not as a result of. (See Amendments 19 and 26)
- dragonwriter 7y agoRight, 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.)