Question

Select the correct texts in the passage.

Which two detalls, one from each excerpt, show how the two excerpts treat the concept of voting rights similarly?
Passage 1
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1870)
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled.... That the following article be
proposed....which, when ratified by three fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitution, namely
Article XV.
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race,
color, or previous condition of servitude-
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
And, further,... that the amendment to the Constitution... has been ratified by the legislatures of... all twenty-nine states.
Passage 2
excerpt from United States Supreme Court Decision in Smith v. Allwright (1943)
Lonnie E. Smith, an African American from Texas, sued to overturn a 1923 state law declaring that only white citizens could vote in Texas's Democratic
Party primary elections. Lower courts had ruled that political parties were private organizations and could make their own rules. The Supreme Court's
landmark decision held that Texas's all-white Democratic Party primaries were unconstitutional.
The United States is a constitutional democracy. Its organis law grants to all citizens a right to participate in the choice of elected officials without
restriction by any state because of race. This grant to the ple of the opportunity for choice is not to be nullified by a state through casting its electoral
process in a form which permits a private organization to practice racial discrimination in the election. Constitutional rights would be of little value if they
could be thus indirectly denied.

Answer 1

Both the Fifteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court fight racial discrimination in voting rights, not allowing race to restrict voting opportunities.

Step-by-step explanation:

The two excerpts from Passage 1 and Passage 2 show how the concept of voting rights is treated similarly in both the Fifteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright. In Passage 1, the Fifteenth Amendment establishes that the right to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Similarly, in Passage 2, the Supreme Court's decision in Smith v. Allwright holds that racial discrimination in election processes, like the all-white Democratic Party primaries in Texas, is unconstitutional. Both details demonstrate a commitment to ensuring that voting rights are not restricted based on race.