Guinn v. United States
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guinn-v-united-states-261-7430995
title:
Guinn v. United States
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Guinn v. United States, 238 U.S. 347 (1915), was a United States Supreme Court decision that found certain grandfather clause exemptions to literacy tests for voting rights to be unconstitutional. Though these grandfather clauses were superficially race-neutral, they were designed to protect the voting rights of illiterate white voters while disenfranchising black voters. The 1870 ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution barred each state from denying the right t
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1915 U.S. Supreme Court case declaring certain voting restrictions unconstitutional
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinn_v._United_States
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2024-04-03T02:49:19Z
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