text: Nothing more absurd than someone who bases their arguments via semantics coupled with a clear lack of understanding themselves of the Constitution and our history. 
  
  Let's pick the lowest hanging fruit from the tree...the 19th Amendment passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920(by the States...not SCOTUS) gave women the RIGHT to vote(I am pretty sure God approved their "right" to vote long before 1920).
  
  Similarily the Voting RIGHTS Act of 1965 was a federal piece of legislation signed into law by President Johnson. In fact, as initially ratified, the Constitution allowed each state complete discretion to determine voter qualifications for its residents. 
  
  Have legislation / laws been upheld or struck down by the Supreme Court? Of course.  But to suggest voting RIGHTS cannot be granted by government is not historically accurate. It may be a privilege to live in this country but it is a RIGHT to vote thanks to what has been legislated into the Constitution.