Existing comment:
Voting and Citizenship
Disqualifying persons of the African race from holding office or voting, 1861
Excluding the descendants of Africans from citizenship, 1861
Prohibiting the vote to Chinese persons, 1869
Providing that the right to vote be based on citizenship, 1880
Cutting in half the representation of any state refusing women's right to vote, 1890
Repealing the 15th Amendment [the right of Black males to vote], 1900
Prohibiting dual citizenship, 1942
Permitting naturalized citizens to hold office of President and Vice President after 11 years of citizenship, 1989
Restricting the requirement of citizenship at birth by virtue of birth in the United States to persons with legal resident mothers, 1991 |