Quite possibly a State might feel that a fifthgrade education would be a proper basis upon which to determine literacy. Another State might decide that a seventhgrade education should be the standard of literacy that should be required to make a citizen eligible to vote. If the Federal Government has power by law to establish a limit of a sixthgrade education upon the literacy test requirements of a State. it has the power to establish a limit of a fifthgrade education. a fourthgrade education. a thirdgrade education. or a secondgrade educationand. indeed. it could provide for no grade at all. If the Federal Government were now to invade that province and usurp a power that it does not have and. to enforce its will. should provide that a sixthgrade education would be required for a literacy test. it could require a firstgrade education. or no grade at all. Why should we seek to substitute a Federal standard for the standards of the States. especially when it is clear that to do so would be a usurpation and invasion of the rights reserved to the States? Do we want all power and all authority reposed in the Federal Government?
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