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PHORTO
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“But surely a guarantee of basic literacy skills must be implicit in the document in order for its express rights to have meaning.”
You can’t have it both ways: If a literacy test being required to exercise the right to vote is unconstitutional (which has been so held by the SOTUS), then Professor Tang’s analogy fails miserably. If being literate is assumed as necessary to exercise the right to vote, then such a test would have been upheld.
The fact is, illiterate people indeed DO have the right to vote, and Professor Tang must needs go back to the drawing board. |
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