Thus was it expressly understood, at the adoption of the Constitution, that Congress should have the power to prevent any State, under the pretence of regulating the suffrage, from depriving the people of this right, or from interfering with the principle of Equality.
He asserts that the Constitution was designed to prevent states from infringing on the right to vote under the guise of regulation.
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