Long after the issue of voting rights is settled or adjusted. or whatever term one might want to use. this dangerous. deadly precedent will be here. stirring the Congress and the courts in the future. It is an obliteration of the protective features of the Constitution of the United States. The right of trial by jury is not written in any clearer or plainer language in the Constitution of the United States than it is in the matter of voter qualificationscertainly. those that are reasonableand the most reasonable of all is the requirement of a simple literacy test. To continue with my statement. the some principle applies to any provision of the Constitution. for a temporary suspension of a constitutional right is the same as a denial of that right. If any section may be suspended for a week. or a month. or a year. it may be suspended in perpetuity and thus forever denied.
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