America, is one the best nation in the world. It is not only because it is under God’s blessing, and it is also because America given its citizen countless freedoms and rights. In the Constitution has twenty-seven Amendments, it stated what are the rights that each citizen of United States has and the government are responsible to protect these rights to its people and making sure nobody is doing any unconstitutional decision to the citizen in America. Personally, I think the best right is the voting right, we can choose who is going to be our next president though the electoral college. We have a saying on it. Unlike other counties, for example; China. It is a communist nation, beside the citizen cannot vote who is going to the next chairman,
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Holder. In Amendment fourteen, Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." (Primary Documents in American History, 2016, web). It was ratified on February 3, 1870, but this Amendment did not fully realize for near a century. The Southern states were using the poll taxes, literacy tests, and other things that avoids African Americans to vote. They could not register to vote until the Voting Rights act of 1965. Lyndon Johnson said. “Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because of their color. This law will ensure them the right to vote.” (Rutenberg, J. (2015). A Dream Undone). Based on this, we can see if the Congress did not have power to oversee the voting law from every state, some of the states will try to take away the privilege from the weaker people and causes the unconstitutional …show more content…
Now it is up to voters to challenge voting laws by filing lawsuits under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination. “With redistricting, there’s always one very wealthy political party or another who can hire some very good lawyers and go into court and challenge it,” Heather Gerken (Yale University law professor) said. “But a lot of the types of things that were challenged under Section 5 were smaller questions, like, ‘Can you change a polling place? Can you shut down early voting hours in ways that might affect the black community?’ There are things smaller than redistricting that can fall through the cracks.” (Brandisky, K., Chen, H., & Trgas, M. (2014), web.). After I saw this quote, I was think what if that family is a low-income family. How can they afford a better lawyer? This question led me back to it this Supreme Court decision very fair to every
Holder. In Amendment fourteen, Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." (Primary Documents in American History, 2016, web). It was ratified on February 3, 1870, but this Amendment did not fully realize for near a century. The Southern states were using the poll taxes, literacy tests, and other things that avoids African Americans to vote. They could not register to vote until the Voting Rights act of 1965. Lyndon Johnson said. “Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because of their color. This law will ensure them the right to vote.” (Rutenberg, J. (2015). A Dream Undone). Based on this, we can see if the Congress did not have power to oversee the voting law from every state, some of the states will try to take away the privilege from the weaker people and causes the unconstitutional …show more content…
Now it is up to voters to challenge voting laws by filing lawsuits under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination. “With redistricting, there’s always one very wealthy political party or another who can hire some very good lawyers and go into court and challenge it,” Heather Gerken (Yale University law professor) said. “But a lot of the types of things that were challenged under Section 5 were smaller questions, like, ‘Can you change a polling place? Can you shut down early voting hours in ways that might affect the black community?’ There are things smaller than redistricting that can fall through the cracks.” (Brandisky, K., Chen, H., & Trgas, M. (2014), web.). After I saw this quote, I was think what if that family is a low-income family. How can they afford a better lawyer? This question led me back to it this Supreme Court decision very fair to every