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The 15th Amendment protects the

rights of Americans to vote in

elections to elect there leaders. It

confirms the right to vote and list

conditions that are illegal to deny

someone rights to vote

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The act is the first to maintain records of immigration and residence, and provided certificates of residence for white immigrant aliens, for the purpose of establishing the date of arrival for subsequent qualification for citizenship.

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The Chinese Exclusion Act was a

United States federal law signed

by President Chester A. Arthur on

May 6, 1882, prohibiting all

immigration of Chinese laborers.

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The 19th Amendment to the

constitution was important

because it granted all women

equal rights at par with men, to

cast there votes during elections

and even participate in congress

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The Amendment allows American citizens residing in the District of Columbia to vote for presidential electors, who in turn vote in the Electoral College for President and Vice President.

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The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924,

also known as the Snyder Act, was

an Act of the United States

Congress that granted US

citizenship to the indigenous

peoples of the United States,

called "Indians" in the Act. While

the Fourteenth Amendment to the

United States Constitution

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prohibits both Congress and the

states from conditioning the right

to vote in federal elections on

payment of a poll tax or other

types of tax.

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Was a United States Supreme

Court case in which the Court

ruled that the electoral districts of

state legislative chambers must be

roughly equal in population.

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a landmark piece of federal

legislation in the United States that

prohibits racial discrimination in

voting. It was signed into law by

President Lyndon B. Johnson

during the height of the civil rights

movement on August 6, 1965, and

Congress later amended the Act

five times to expand its

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prohibits the states and the federal

government from using age as a

reason for denying the right to

vote to citizens of the United States

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Prohibits State and local

governments from enacting any

voting procedure designed to deny

or abridge the right to vote of any

citizen because he is a member of

a language minority group. Sets

forth procedures to determine if a

jurisdiction employs tests or

devices.

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The court ruled in a 5-4 decision

that redistricting based on race

must be held to a standard of strict

scrutiny under the equal protection

clause. On the other hand, bodies

doing redistricting must be

conscious of race to the extent

that they must ensure compliance

with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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The law was enacted under the

Elections Clause of the United

States Constitution and advances

voting rights in the United States

by requiring state governments to

offer simplified voter registration

processes for any eligible person

who applies for or renews a

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is a United States federal law

which passed in the House 357-48

and 92-2 in the Senate and was

signed into law by President Bush