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(This is the last of five commentaries on recent Supreme Court decisions.) The Fifteenth Amendment, adopted five years after Civil War ended, was designed primarily to secure the right to vote for newly-freed slaves. Section 1 of the Amendment provides that “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be deniedhttps://i2i.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/i2i_building_facebook_1200x630.jpg1200630