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The right to vote

1851096485 (hardback : alk. paper)

1851096531 (electronic bk.)

9781851096480 (hardback : alk. paper)

9781851096534 (electronic bk.)

1851096485 (Cloth)

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The right to vote

[Book]

rights and liberties under the law /

Donald Grier Stephenson, Jr

Santa Barbara, Calif. :

ABC-CLIO,

©2004

1 online resource (xxxiii, 453 pages)

America's freedoms

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-433) and index

The critical political moment of 1865 -- Dimensions of voting rights -- Voting and political parties : links between the rulers and the ruled -- The debates at Putney -- Voting rights in America around the time of the revolution -- Toward a (nearly) universal white manhood suffrage -- The reconstruction amendments -- Race and voting : a promise unfulfilled -- Gender and voting : initial steps -- Progressivism -- Gender : access to the ballot at last -- Race and voting : culmination of a century of struggle -- The "political thicket" of representation -- A new consensus on voting age -- Majority-minority districts : from the thicket into the morass -- Partisan gerrymandering revisited -- "Motor voter" : enlarging the electorate -- Bush v. Gore : counting the votes -- Capital anomaly -- Immigrants -- Criminal disqualification

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The Right to Vote: Rights and Liberties under the Law tracks the expansion of voting rights in America from colonial times to the present. Opening with a case study establishing the importance of access to the ballot, the main emphasis shifts to pivotal points in American history including the hard-fought struggles for women's suffrage and racial equality. A chapter on 21st-century voting rights addresses the most unsettled issue we face today--the use of majority-minority districts to enhance the political influence of Africans Americans and Latinos. The 2000 presidential election is also discussed

eBook Library

EBL266878

Right to vote.

1851096485

Suffrage-- United States-- History

LAW-- 018000

LAW-- 075000

Stephenson, D. Grier

ABC-Clio Information Services

20150318194436.0

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