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13. The absense of a Right to Vote Amendment in the US Constitution does not mean that...
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 08:42 AM
Apr 2016

...voting is not a basic and fundamental civil and human right.

I'm not talking about Scriptural passages here from one particular religion or from a constitution of one particular country, and the resulting Arguments From Authority.

I don't care if the "Founding Fathers" or any other religious and/or political authorities that folks may revere failed to support the Right to Vote in their constitution when they wrote it.


Pocan and Ellison Call on Congress to Pass Right to Vote Constitutional Amendment

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SECTION 1:
Every citizen of the United States, who is of legal voting age, shall have the fundamental right to vote in any public election held in the jurisdiction in which the citizen resides.

SECTION 2: Congress shall have the power to enforce and implement this article by appropriate legislation.


https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-and-ellison-to-introduce-right-to-vote-constitutional-amendment




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