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Voting Rights Act Of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Passage of The voting Rights Act of 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson was an act long overdue in the United States. The facts is that the governing powers whom met to draw up the Constitution of the United States, did so with the intent and purpose of continued enslavement of the people whose very backs carried the burden of building this nation from the ground up into the Industrial Giant that it has become.
Throughout the history of the United States, including the provision in the Constitution of the United States' Fifteenth amendment which guaranteed the rights of all Americans to vote, there has been no civil or federal ruling which was enforced by the Government of the United States to enfranchise the African American in this country.
Not until The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was there put into place an enforced Federal statute that enabled the enfranchisement of the African American.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. ยงยง 1971, 1973-1973bb-1) is civil rights legislation that was adopted to ensure that minority voters have an opportunity to participate in the electoral process and elect candidates of their choice free of discrimination. The Act contains two principle sections:
Section 2, which applies to all jurisdictions.
This section outlines prohibited discriminatory
voting practices which are administered based on
race, color, religious background etc.
and
Section 5, which applies only to certain jurisdictions.
This section places the burden of proof upon the
state or political subdivision which has made
any change to it's voting laws to give an
accounting to the District of Columbia, that there
are/were no retrogressive effects for the minority
voter.
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