Assertion: amendment | /r/CapableOf | fail in the senate
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text: The amendment failed in the Senate, partly because radical Republicans foresaw that states would be able to use ostensibly race-neutral criteria, such as educational and property qualifications, to disenfranchise the freed slaves without negative consequence.
text: The amendment passed the House of Representatives, controlled by the more-populous North, but failed in the Senate, which was equally divided between…