After the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment, if a State should exclude the negro from suffrage, the next step would be for the Supreme Court to declare that the act was unconstitutional, and therefore null and void.
Blaine predicts the judicial response to states excluding African Americans from suffrage after the Fifteenth Amendment's adoption.
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