Elk v. Wilkins
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE DISTRICT OE NEBRASKA. This is an action brought by an Indian, in the Circuit Court of-the United States for the District of Nebraska, against the registrar of one of the wards of the city of Omaha, for refusing to register him as a qualified voter therein.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE DISTRICT OE NEBRASKA. This is an action brought by an Indian, in the Circuit Court of-the United States for the District of Nebraska, against the registrar of one of the wards of the city of Omaha, for refusing to register him as a qualified voter therein. The petition was as follows: “John Elk, plaintiff, complains of Charles Wilkins, defendant, and avers that the. matter in dispute herein exceeds the sum of five hundred dollars, to wit, the sum of six thousand dollars, and that the matter in- dispute herein arises under the.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
He stated the- facts in the foregoing language, and continued:
The plaintiff, in support of his action, relies on the first clause of the first section of the Fourteenth Article of Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, by which “ 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;” and on the Fifteenth Article of Amendment, which provides that “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…
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