Sentence examples for abridged on from inspiring English sources
The 15th Amendment said the right to vote could not be denied or abridged on account of race.
The constitutional amendments ratified after the Civil War, he said, "entrust Congress with ensuring that the right to vote — surely among the most important guarantees of political liberty in the Constitution — is not abridged on account of race.
The Fifteenth Amendment, passed in the wake of the Civil War, commands that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race or color — and it gives Congress the power to enforce that right.
To check on the progress of Reconstruction in the former Confederate South, the U.S. government included a question in 1870 asking whether a male citizen age 21 or above had had his "right to vote … denied or abridged on other grounds than rebellion or other crime". The goal was to ensure that former slaves were being accepted as free citizens.
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The Court declared that the Fifteenth Amendment "commands that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race or color, and it gives Congress the power to enforce that command.
A text by Thomas Jefferson, abridged from one of his letters, is inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial: "I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions.
The season continues Oct. 13 with the United States premiere of "White," a contemporary work from the Catherine Wheels Theater Company, of Scotland, that was a 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe award-winner last year; and the Reduced Shakespeare Company's "Complete World of Sports (abridged)," beginning on Oct. 21.
The Act requires jurisdictions having a history of voting discrimination to submit election law changes for preclearance review by the Justice Department pursuant to authority granted Congress under the 15th amendment (providing that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged... on account of race").
His tax returns, abridged for presentation to the news media, showed that he lost millions on his investments as the entire market plunged, including those managed by Quadrangle.
In an effort to build buzz over the weekend and capture consumers of all stripes, a digital download of the audiobook (which is abridged) will go on sale at midnight on Friday on Audible.com and iTunes, four days before the printed version hits bookstore shelves.
