According to 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," yet the Insular Cases deny citizens of the United States' five inhabited territories the right to vote on the grounds that they are an inferior "alien race." Further, these citizens are as patriotic as those of any state. American Samoa boasts the top army recruiting station in the country, and Guam has a higher turn-out for their presidential straw poll than the rest of the U.S. does for the actual election. Citizens of these territories are being deprived of a fundamental right based on a series of racist, unconstitutional cases in the early 1900s.



