Democrats Desperate to Stop Save America Act |
Democrats Desperate to Stop Save America Act
They fight to secure their own private institutions with ID, but they fight to keep the public ballot box as insecure as possible;
Douglas V. Gibbs ——Bio and Archives--March 14, 2026
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The Constitution makes it clear: to vote in the United States, you must be a citizen. The 15th, 19th, and 26th Amendments each begin with the same powerful phrase: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote..." They then prohibit states from denying that right based on race, sex, or age. This is not a coincidence; it is an affirmation of a self-evident truth.
The answer lies not in principle, but in a calculated political strategy
These amendments were not creating a new requirement. They were protecting a pre-existing, fundamental right of national membership. The framers did not need to state "only citizens may vote" because it was a universally accepted truth of the American political order. The purpose of the amendments mentioned was to stop states from discriminating against a specific, universally understood portion of the electorate: citizens. To argue otherwise is to reject the entire philosophical context in which the Constitution was written, from the Saxon and Lockean foundations of natural rights to the Privileges and Immunities Clause, which Justice Bushrod Washington recognized as protecting the core privileges of citizenship.
A natural right, like the right to keep and bear arms, is understood to be exercised within the context of one's own political community. I could not go to another........