Charles Sumner: “No State, in prescribing the qualifications requisite for electors…”

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No State, in prescribing the qualifications requisite for electors therein, shall discriminate against any person on account of color or race.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner advocates for non-discrimination in voter qualifications based on color or race.

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