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1. www.democracydocket.com › analysis › what-does-theWhat Does the Constitution Say About the Right to Vote?

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   Feb 3, 2022 · Nowhere in the original Constitution does it say that U.S. citizens have a right to vote. Instead, the authority to protect voting rights stems from later amendments and legislation, an authority weakened by the Supreme Court and Senate inaction.

2. www.usconstitution.net › 10th-amendment-and-state10th Amendment and State Sovereignty – U.S. Constitution.net

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   Jun 28, 2024 · The 10th Amendment, in reserving powers to the people, enshrines a critical principle of American governance. It fortifies popular sovereignty as a bulwark against the possible overreach of both federal and state governments, maintaining a fundamentally balanced and people-centric republic.

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4. www.thoughtco.com › states-rights-4582633Understanding States' Rights and the 10th Amendment - ThoughtCo

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   Jul 3, 2019 · The doctrine of states’ rights holds that the federal government is barred from interfering with certain rights “reserved” to the individual states by the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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   Beginning in the mid-1970s, the Supreme Court relied on the Tenth Amendment to analyze congressional enactments alleged to intrude not upon state police power, but upon state sovereignty—such as whether Congress may apply general economic regulations to states and state instrumentalities.

6. www.theatlantic.com › national › archiveWhat Does the Constitution Actually Say About Voting Rights?

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   Aug 19, 2013 · The law cuts back early voting, restricts private groups from conducting voter-registration drives, eliminates election-day voter registration, and imposes the strictest voter-ID rules in the...

7. www.collegesoflaw.edu › blog › 2019/09/17The Right to Vote: A Constitutional Guarantee or Privilege ...

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   Sep 17, 2019 · Most states explicitly assert the right to vote for each of its citizens in its state constitution. Although, this is not a right that states are required to grant : Section 2 of the 14 th Amendment “penalizes states that withhold the ballot but does not require them to grant it.”

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   Should voting rights be protected under a state constitution?

   • Litigation under state constitutions could be another way to protect voting rights. Even though the U.S. Constitution doesn’t contain an explicit right to vote, almost all state constitutions do. While voting rights cases are typically brought in federal court, legal observers have suggested they could be brought in state courts instead.

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   Are voting rights a privilege or a constitutional right?

   • Since the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court both point to state law regarding voting rights, it is up to the individual state to determine how it wants to distribute those voting rights. Noah Millman, political columnist for The Week, believes that because there is no constitutional right to vote, the right is treated as a privilege.

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   How does the 15th Amendment affect voting rights?

   • The 15th Amendment prohibits restricting the right to vote due to race. The 17th Amendment requires states to elect senators by popular vote. The 19th Amendment extends voting rights to all women. The 26th Amendment extends the right to vote to everyone 18 years of age and older.

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   How does the Constitution prevent states from claiming too much power?

   • In order to prevent the states from claiming too much power, the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Clause 2) holds that all laws enacted by the state governments must comply with the Constitution, and that whenever a law enacted by a state conflicts with a federal law, the federal law must be applied.

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   What does the 10th amendment say about state power?

   • The 10th Amendment states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." This phrasing reinforces the principle of limited federal authority while safeguarding state and individual powers.

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   Does the government protect voting rights?

   • Instead, much of the government’s authority to protect voting rights stems from amendments adopted following the civil war and legislation passed during the civil rights movement. But thanks to a voting-rights skeptical U.S. Supreme Court and the Senate’s failure to pass new voting legislation, this authority has been severely weakened.

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9. constitutioncenter.org › the-constitutionThe Seventeenth Amendment - The National Constitution Center

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   The only constitutional amendment to do so in a substantial way is the Seventeenth Amendment, which removed from state legislatures the power to choose U.S. Senators and gave that power directly to voters in each state.