There. it was stated: The privilege to vote in any State is not given by the Federal Constitution. or by any of its amendments. It is not a privilege springing from citizenship of the United States. * * * It may not be refused on account of race. color. or previous condition of servitude. but it does not follow from mere citizenship of the United States. In other words. the privilege to vote in a State is within the jurisdiction of the State itself. to be exercised as the State may direct. and upon such terms as to it may seem proper. * * * The State might provide that persons of foreign birth could vote without being naturalized. and as stated by Mr. Chief Justice Waite in Minor v. Happersett. such persons were allowed to vote (in several of the States upon having declared their intentions to become citizens of the United States.
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