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Census support for voting rights (1870)

Law Asked on November 4, 2021

The fifteenth amendment was not ratified when the 1870 census forms were designed. The last two questions in 1870 were

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Was this intended to support Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment (which punished, by reduced representation in the House of Representatives, any state that disenfranchised any male citizens over 21 years of age)?

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Yes. See the discussion in the instructions to enumerators:

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/genealogy/charts-forms/1870-census.pdf

Answered by Just a guy on November 4, 2021

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