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Republicans controlled it, and their insistence upon unrestricted negro suffrage gave colour to the whole document, until the Democrats, demanding its defeat, focused upon it their united opposition.
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This passage discusses the Republican stance on negro suffrage and its impact on the constitutional document.
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