No Right Is More Precious

No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live.  Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.  Our Constitution leaves no room for classification of people in a way that unnecessarily abridges this right.

-- Hugo Black (1886 - 1971), American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Majority opinion in Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 (1964), at 17-18 on the right to vote as the foundation of democracy