Assertion: grandfather's power | /r/PartOf | government
Facets:
value: from the beginning
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Beyond doubt the Amendment does not take away from the state governments in a general sense the power over suffrage which has belonged to those governments from the beginning and without the possession of which power the whole fabric upon which the division of state and national authority under the Constitution and the organization of both governments rest would be without support and both the authority of the nation and the State would fall to the ground.