The Fifteenth Amendment is usually an afterthought compared to the Fourteenth Amendment. This oversight is perplexing: the Fifteenth Amendment ushered in a brief period of multiracial democracy and laid the constitutional foundation for the VRA. This Article completes the historical record, providing an unabridged accounting of the Fifteenth Amendment’s adoption.

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未删节的第十五修正案

与第十四修正案相比，第十五修正案通常是事后诸葛亮。这种疏忽令人费解：第十五修正案开启了短暂的多种族民主时期，并为 VRA 奠定了宪法基础。本文完善了历史记录，对第十五修正案的通过进行了完整的记录。