Starting With The 14th Amendment

It took a major revolution to grant both blacks, and women, to vote in the United States of America. In 1868 blacks were granted the right to U.S. citizenship and in 1870 male blacks were granted the right to vote. Women on the other hand had to wait 50 years later to be allowed to vote! Women won the right to vote in 1920 while they had been actively fighting for rights since 1860.

The 15th Amendment

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.

ser·vi·tude

1. the state of being a slave or completely subject to someone more powerful. (Google)

However, these strides there still is injustice! We have other properties that don't have voting rights but still pay taxes!

Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States and Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens; however, Puerto Rico is not a U.S. state, but a U.S. insular area. Consequently, while all Puerto Rico residents pay federal taxes, many residents are not required to pay federal income taxes. (Wikipedia)

Five territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) are permanently inhabited, unincorporated territories; the other nine are small islands, atolls, and reefs with no native (or permanent) population.

There are 27 Amendments to the Constitution. I say we need others for our U.S. Citizens inhabiting these territories!