Talk:Lishenets

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Removed references to US Constitution's 13th and 14th Amendments

Sections about the 13th and 14th Amendments to the US Constitution have no place in an article about a specific policy enacted by the USSR.

Further, the claims made about the 13th and 14th Amendments were also factually untrue. The 13th Amendment most certainly DID NOT restrict voting rights of anyone. Its actual purpose was to ban slavery, allowing involuntary servitude only in the case of convicted criminals.

There was never a "de facto," let alone "de jure" disenfranchisement at the US federal level, nor any "de jure" disenfranchisement in any state. The methods used to disenfranchise former slaves and their descendants were also used against other groups, including white immigrants and white southerners who did not vote in accord with the wishes of the state and local governments that controlled voter registration policies and elections. This disenfranchisement was ended only when there was the political will at the federal level to enforce the rights guaranteed under the 14th Amendment, a century after its enactment.

And none of this has anything whatsoever to do with the disenfranchisement policies of the Soviet Union. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.178.166.3 (talk) 07:41, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]