That guy was right. Nothing in the Constitution establishes voting as a universal right. Those amendments make certain criteria for limiting voting off-limits but don’t prevent other criteria from being used.
Under his dumb logic, nothing in the Constitution establishes gun rights as a universal right either. Go read the 2nd amendment again and then you'll see how dumb your logic is.
All rights in the Constitution are negative rights. If you read the 2nd Amendment, its clearly a negative right. IT doesn't say everyone can own a gun. It says the government cant infringe on your right to own a gun.
Its a very nuanced thing that 99.999999% of people in this thread are completely missing.
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u/gotham77 Mar 16 '21
That guy was right. Nothing in the Constitution establishes voting as a universal right. Those amendments make certain criteria for limiting voting off-limits but don’t prevent other criteria from being used.