Examples of using Fifteenth amendment in English and their translations into Russian
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For the first few years after the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment, Blacks in the United States exercised their right to vote in strong numbers in the South.
The Society continued to operate until 1870, the same year that black men were guaranteed the right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In the United States, the Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, prohibits denial or abridgement of the right to vote on account of race, colour or previous condition of servitude.
Statesponsored segregation and de jure discrimination have been prohibited in the United States since the enactment of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments a few years after the end of the Civil War.
It was the Civil War and the passage of the Thirteenth,Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution that officially ended slavery in the United States of America.
The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1870 following the Civil War, prohibits the denial of voting rights"on account of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude.
After the American Civil War, Stanton's commitment to female suffrage caused a schism in the women's rights movement when she,together with Susan B. Anthony, declined to support passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were added during the treaty-making period when it was anticipated that Indians would always remain separate from American society.
This was soon followed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution that granted citizenship to all persons"born ornaturalized in the United States", and the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution that protected the rights to vote for everyone.
After enduring nearly a century of systematic resistance to the Fifteenth Amendment, Congress might well decide to shift the advantage of time and inertia from the perpetrators of the evil to its victims.
On 28 September the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal to the Government concerning members of the Senate belonging to the opposition parties who were publically threatened with death by an Islamist group because of their opposition to the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment Bill to the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Following the fifteenth amendment, the Constitution mandates that the State is to take steps to protect and develop the unique local culture and traditions of the tribes, minor races, ethnic sects and communities.
The Voting Rights Act authorizes theU.S. Attorney General and private parties to bring lawsuits to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment and bans the use of literacy tests and other devices which had been used to disqualify African-American voters.
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's"race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
While in the northern, nonslaveholding states,Blacks frequently(but not uniformly) were already enfranchised, the Fifteenth Amendment and legislation adopted at that time to enforce it did not lead to the permanent enfranchisement of Blacks in the former slaveholding states.
In response to the Fifteenth Amendment, many states, through a combination of physical and economic coercion and through the use of state legal systems, had almost totally excluded Blacks from the political process in several southern states by the end of the nineteenth century.
The Act authorizes theUnited States AttorneyGeneral and private parties to bring lawsuits in federal court to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to ensure that minority voters are afforded an equal opportunity to elect their candidates of choice to state, local, and federal office.
In addition, though the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed that the"right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude", many southern states enacted laws that were seemingly neutral, but were designed and implemented in a way to deny Black citizens the opportunity to participate in elections.
These guarantees arose in the mid1960s in response to the continued discrimination against Blacks in the electoral process despite the ratification in 1870 of the Fifteenth Amendment, which was intended to protect the right to vote from denial or abridgement on account of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude.
The Fifth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution guarantee that no public authority may engage in any act or practice of racial discrimination against persons, groups of persons, or institutions.
The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, the Fourteenth Amendment ensures that states provide equal protection of the laws to all persons within their jurisdiction and the Fifteenth Amendment provides that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, colour or previous condition of servitude.
At the timeit was first passed, however, the Fifteenth Amendment and legislation adopted to enforce it did not sufficiently ensure the full and permanent enfranchisement of African Americans in all states in practice.
Indeed, the amendments to the United States Constitution enacted at the war's conclusion, the Thirteenth Amendment(ending slavery), the Fourteenth Amendment(guaranteeing equal protection of the laws anddue process of law), and the Fifteenth Amendment(guaranteeing Black citizens the right to vote), directly addressed questions of racial discrimination.
Nearly a century earlier,in the wake of the Civil War, the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution had granted the right to vote to African-American men, although in practice that right continued to be obstructed and denied.
However, after years of struggle, lead by the efforts of Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, in 1964 the country ratified the Twentyfourth Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the requirement of payment of a poll tax as a qualification for voting for federal offices, andin 1965 the U.S. Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act which made real the Fifteenth Amendment's prohibition against discrimination in voting.
The last of the postCivil War era Amendments, the Fifteenth Amendment provides that the right to vote"shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude.
Among other pieces of legislation that contain provisions prohibiting racial discrimination, the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1871 prohibit racial discrimination in certain criminal and civil matters, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 provides several safeguards against the introduction of laws and regulations that have a discriminatory purpose ora discriminatory effect upon the voting rights of minorities and authorizes the United States Attorney General and individuals to bring lawsuits in federal court to enforce the guarantees of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment.
Nevertheless Sharif used his popularity to justify the passage of a fifteenth amendment to constitution by the National Assembly that would have permitted him, as prime minister, to assume dictatorial powers in achieving an Islamization of the Pakistan's government.
The Constitution's first ten amendments, adopted in 1791 and known as the Bill of Rights, along with the Thirteenth,Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, adopted in the wake of the Civil War, protect many rights that, in the twentieth century, became recognized and protected under international human rights law.
