United States v. Reese
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United States v. Reese
United States v. Reese
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 13–14, 1875
Decided March 27, 1876
Full case name United States v. Reese
Citations
92 U.S. 214
[1]
(more)
Court membership
Case opinions
Majority
Waite
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XV
United States v. Reese was an 1876 voting rights case in which the United States Supreme Court upheld such
practices as the poll tax, the literacy test, and the grandfather clause. This case helped to undermine African
Americans and their rights included in the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
This was the Supreme Court's first voting rights case under the Fifteenth Amendment and the Enforcement Act of
1870. A Kentucky electoral official had refused to register an African‐American's vote in a municipal election and
was indicted under two sections of the 1870 act: section 2 required that administrative preliminaries to elections be
conducted without regard to race, color, or previous condition of servitude; section 3 forbade wrongful refusal to
register votes where a prerequisite step “required as foresaid” had been omitted. The Court held that the Fifteenth
Amendment did not confer the right of suffrage but prohibited exclusion on racial grounds. The justices invalidated
the operative section 3 since it did not repeat the words about race, color, and servitude and thus exceeded the scope
of the Fifteenth Amendment.
External links
• United States v. REESE ET AL., 92 US 214 - Supreme Court 1876 [2]
References
[1] https:/ / supreme. justia. com/ us/ 92/ 214/ case. html
[2] http:/ / scholar. google. com/ scholar_case?case=15528584311057419397& hl=en& as_sdt=2& as_vis=1& oi=scholarr
Article Sources and Contributors
Article Sources and Contributors
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VashiDonsk, 10 anonymous edits
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