The Supreme Court Rightly Decided That Section 4 of the VRA Violated the Constitution

Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, "Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting." the other way that it could happen is through the voting rights act of 1965. Because I believe his words, I stand in affirmation in todays resolution of Resolved: The Supreme Court rightly decided that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act violated the Constitution. I support my stance with two main contentions. 1. Section 4 of the voting rights act violates the constitution. 2. Section 4 decreases federalism. My first point states that section four of the voting rights act of 1965 violates the American Constitution. The voting rights act violates the 10th, 14th and 15th amendments to the American Constitution. The tenth amendment says "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. This amendment identifies the area of power may be exercised by the States. All of those powers the Constitution does not grant to the National Government, and at the same time does not forbid to the States, belong to each of the States, or to the people of each State. The 14th amendment says All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 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. Section four of the voting rights act violates this by abridging the liberty of people, mainly other races, that although naturalized in the US. The 15th amendment states 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. This gives the people of another race the ability to vote that section 4 is abridging. same thing goes with the 24th amendment. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. The 26th amendment is right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age. All of these amendments are being violated by Section 4 of the voting rights act. My second point is that section 4 promotes centralism. Federalism as described by the free dictionary as the distribution of power in an organization (as a government) between a central authority and the constituent units. The State government shares power with the national government. If not, then we would have centralism, a way of organizing a political system in which a single authority has power and control over the entire system. If the state doesn"t have power, then the national government has all the power being us havin a centralist government or communist government, a way of organizing a society in which the government owns everything and there is no privately owned property. Similar to centralism, the central government has all the power. If the state doesn"t share power with the national level, then there aren"t any checks and balances. If the government gets completely overthrown by rioters, then we have anarchy, a situation of confusion and wild behavior in which the people in a country, group, organization, etc., are not controlled by rules or laws. Section 4 of the voting rights act denies the state power, leaning more toward centralism, communism capitalism, and God forbid anarchy over federalism, the government we like. The Constitution is the foundation of America. If something goes against the Constitution, it is "un-American". A vote in affirmation will ensure that the VRA is legal and Constitutional.