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Voting Rights on Trial - A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Voting Rights on Trial - A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Series: On Trial
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Explores and documents the causes and effects of the long history
of vote denial on American politics, culture, law, and society. The
debate over who can and cannot vote has been "on trial" since the
American Revolution. Throughout U.S. history, the franchise has
been awarded and denied on the basis of wealth, status, gender,
ethnicity, and race. Featuring a unique mix of analysis and
documentation, Voting Rights on Trial illuminates the long, slow,
and convoluted path by which vote denial and dilution were first
addressed, and then defeated, in the courts. Four narrative
chapters survey voting rights from colonial times to the 2000
presidential election, focus on key court cases, and examine the
current voting climate. The volume includes analysis of voting
rights in the new century and their implications for future
electoral contests. The coverage concludes with selections of
documents from cases discussed, relevant statutes and amendments,
and other primary sources. A timeline giving the history of voting
rights from 1619, when Virginia planters voted for the first time,
to 2000, when the Supreme Court invalidated Florida's recount
process, which ultimately determined the outcome of the election
Excerpts of key legal documents including Reynolds v. Sims (one
person, one vote) and Bush v. Gore (debate over nationalization of
voting rights)
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