Speech #910177980

Section 5 of the 14th amendment provides that Congress shall have the power to enforce. by appropriate legislation. the provision of the 14th amendment. The voting rights act now being considered by the U.S. Senate suspends State literacy tests under the power granted to Congress by this section of the 14th amendment. Katzenbach v. Morgan (1966) 384 U.S. 641. upheld the validity of section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. which provided that no State could deny the vote to any person on the grounds of inability to read or write English if such person had completed the sixth grade in a Puerto Rican school in which the language of instruction was not English.