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This means in present money about £600 a year, or an estate worth £20,000: another left money to pay the tax called the Fifteenth, for three parishes: another brought water in a conduit from Highbury to Cripplegate.
The History of London Walter Besant 1868
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"Fifteenth," said the elevator, "and remember, I'm only doing this because I like your robot."
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1980
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Congress mandated that a state could be readmitted into the Union only if its constitution included provisions for black suffrage and if its legislature ratified not only the Fourteenth Amendment but also a new Fifteenth Amendment, which made illegal the denial of suffrage to any citizen on account of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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The Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments granted equal rights to freed slaves.
What do u think of my Research? « Literacy Research « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2009
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They walked to Broad Street and caught the subway to Fifteenth Street, then jumped a cab the rest of the way to Whole Foods right off the Parkway.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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No, that would be the Fifteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights Act passed under it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010
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No, that would be the Fifteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights Act passed under it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010
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The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, forbade denial of the right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
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No, that would be the Fifteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights Act passed underit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010
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They walked to Broad Street and caught the subway to Fifteenth Street, then jumped a cab the rest of the way to Whole Foods right off the Parkway.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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