North Carolina agrees. We do not sit in judgment on the wisdom of that policy. We cannot say. however. that it is not an allowable one measured by constitutional standards. Of course a literacy test. fair on its face. may be employed to perpetuate that discrimination which the 15th amendment was designed to uproot. No such influence Is charged here. On the other hand a literacy test may be unconstitutional on its face. In Davis v. Schnell (81 F. Supp. 872. affd 336 U.S. 933). the test was the citizens ability to "understand and explain" an article of the Federal Constitution.
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