TY - JOUR
T1 - TAKING (EQUAL VOTING) RIGHTS SERIOUSLY
T2 - THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT AS CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATION, AND THE NEED FOR JUDGES TO REMODEL THEIR APPROACH TO AGE DISCRIMINATION IN POLITICAL RIGHTS
AU - Amar, Vikram David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Vikram David Amar.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This Essay explores the relationship between twentieth-century voting-discrimination amendments and the Fifteenth Amendment's antidiscrimination groundwork on which these later developments built. In particular, it examines ways in which the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, whose text and ratification conversations tightly track those of the Fifteenth Amendment, has been underimplemented, if not completely ignored, in recent debates and cases that are ever-more crucial to the meaning of political-rights equality under the Constitution. It ends by urging courts to take more seriously the similarities between the Twenty-Sixth and Fifteenth Amendments in adjudicating disputes involving facial or de facto age discrimination in political rights realms.
AB - This Essay explores the relationship between twentieth-century voting-discrimination amendments and the Fifteenth Amendment's antidiscrimination groundwork on which these later developments built. In particular, it examines ways in which the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, whose text and ratification conversations tightly track those of the Fifteenth Amendment, has been underimplemented, if not completely ignored, in recent debates and cases that are ever-more crucial to the meaning of political-rights equality under the Constitution. It ends by urging courts to take more seriously the similarities between the Twenty-Sixth and Fifteenth Amendments in adjudicating disputes involving facial or de facto age discrimination in political rights realms.
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M3 - Article
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SN - 0745-3515
VL - 97
SP - 1619
EP - 1641
JO - Notre Dame Law Review
JF - Notre Dame Law Review
IS - 4
ER -