 Certainly if all the provisions of our Constitution which limit the power of the Federal Government and reserve other power to the States are to mean anything, they mean at least that the States have power to pass laws and amend their constitutions without first sending their officials hundreds of miles away to beg federal authorities to approve them.Through the court's majority decision, the Voting Rights Act was upheld and able to be implemented without any barriers.This allowed for over 800,000 African Americans to register to vote between 1964 and 1967.