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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

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- The Fifteenth Amendment denotes two distinct constitutional provisions: the 1870 US amendment barring racial denial of the vote, and Bangladesh's 2011 amendment restoring secularism and abolishing the caretaker govern…
- When was the US Fifteenth Amendment ratified and what does it prohibit?
- What did Bangladesh's Fifteenth Amendment (2011) abolish, and why?
- Which state principles did the Bangladesh Fifteenth Amendment restore?
- How was the US Fifteenth Amendment's promise undermined and later enforced?

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1. 3 February 1870

   In the United States, the Fifteenth Amendment, ratified on as the last of the three Reconstruction Amendments (following the Thirteenth and Fourteenth), pro…

2. 30 June 2011

   In Bangladesh, the Constitution (Fifteenth Amendment) Act, 2011 was passed by Parliament on under the Awami League government of Sheikh Hasina, following th…

3. 7 March 1971

   The Bangladesh Fifteenth Amendment, by contrast, amended numerous provisions: it restored the four fundamental state principles of the 1972 Constitution — na…

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