Took them awhile to get it spelled out. But it also took them 100 years to end slavery.
One might also suggest the freedom from searches and seizures is also fairly clear. Be sure to tell that the TSA agent that is groping your genitals. Oh and the TSA is still fully funded.
The Constitution does not explicitly give you the right to vote in the same way that it gives you the right to free speech.
Wikipedia has this to say about it:
"The "right to vote" is not explicitly stated in the U.S. Constitution except in the above referenced amendments, and only in reference to the fact that the franchise cannot be denied or abridged based solely on the aforementioned qualifications. In other words, the "right to vote" is perhaps better understood, in layman's terms, as only prohibiting certain forms of legal discrimination in establishing qualifications for suffrage. States may deny the "right to vote" for other reasons."
Maybe not in the 'Bill of Rights' itself, but it's in other areas of the constitution - for example, the 15th Amendment. Or the 26th Amendment. The parent comment is correct in essence - these are all amendments to the constitution, just like the 2nd.
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So is your right to vote - why do we need voter registration?
I can have only one vote, and any number of firearms :)
Where?
14th, 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, 26th amendments?
Took them awhile to get it spelled out. But it also took them 100 years to end slavery.
One might also suggest the freedom from searches and seizures is also fairly clear. Be sure to tell that the TSA agent that is groping your genitals. Oh and the TSA is still fully funded.
The Constitution does not explicitly give you the right to vote in the same way that it gives you the right to free speech.
Wikipedia has this to say about it:
"The "right to vote" is not explicitly stated in the U.S. Constitution except in the above referenced amendments, and only in reference to the fact that the franchise cannot be denied or abridged based solely on the aforementioned qualifications. In other words, the "right to vote" is perhaps better understood, in layman's terms, as only prohibiting certain forms of legal discrimination in establishing qualifications for suffrage. States may deny the "right to vote" for other reasons."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_St...
Maybe not in the 'Bill of Rights' itself, but it's in other areas of the constitution - for example, the 15th Amendment. Or the 26th Amendment. The parent comment is correct in essence - these are all amendments to the constitution, just like the 2nd.