Voting

God of the Machine throws down the gauntlet.

Voting literacy tests often served as an excuse to intimidate blacks at the polls, and they are certainly objectionable if discriminatorily applied. Yet I see nothing wrong with such tests in principle. If someone is going to participate, albeit in a humble way, in the great affairs of state, ought he at the very least to be able to read?

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Poll taxes I find no more noxious than any other tax.

That is just a sample. There is much more and it deserves to be read in full.