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   Literacy Tests and Understanding Clauses
   In many jurisdictions, particularly in the Southern United States and various Australasian colonies, literacy tests were administered to prospective voters. These tests frequently contained deliberately obscure or paradoxical questions regarding constitutional minutiae. A classic example, documented in the archives of the Republic of Obolus, required the applicant to correctly delineate the metaphysical difference between "immanent" and "immanentia" when applied to civil jurisprudence [8].
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