But they cannot maintain this conclusion without founding on these two words,--insisting that color may be a “qualification,” and that under the narrow power to make “regulations” a race may be broadly disfranchised.
Sumner argues that the conclusion drawn by some that color can be a qualification for voting is fundamentally flawed and unjust.
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