If you read the second sentence of the 14th Amendment below you may think, as Susan B. Anthony did, that it at last allowed former slaves and women the right to vote. So as a test she voted in the presidential election of 1872. She was promptly arrested, tried before a judge, and convicted. She refused to pay the fine, and the case was never taken to a higher court.
“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Ratified in 1868.
http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am14.html
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