History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2273 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Male Citizens, Twenty-One
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The idea
Section two ties the Fourteenth Amendment's representation penalty to the male inhabitants of a state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States.
In practice
The word male entering the Constitution here for the first time.
Where people slip
The section then measures the penalty against the whole number of male citizens. Entry 2288 covers what that did to the suffrage movement.
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