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When the Letter Betrays the Spirit - Voting Rights Enforcement and African American Participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama (Hardcover, New)
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When the Letter Betrays the Spirit - Voting Rights Enforcement and African American Participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama (Hardcover, New)
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When the Letter Betrays the Spirit examines the wide latitude
provided to the executive branch and to the Supreme Court by the
text of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Drawing from government
enforcement data, legislative history, Supreme Court rulings, the
2006 reauthorization debate on the VRA, and from the 2007 scandal
involving the firing of U.S. attorneys under the Bush
Administration, the book examines when, why, and how executive and
judicial discretion facilitates violation of voting rights.
Connecting Johnson to Obama, the book outlines why the
executive-centered model of voting rights enforcement relegates
Congress to the sidelines, and outlines why a Congress-centered
approach provides the best protection against the effects of the
law enforcement axiom: the law is neither self-executing nor
self-interpreting. The book also examines 2008 survey results about
public support for a Jim Crow-era election reform policy that would
require voters to read a passage of the Constitution. Describing
the civic literacy dimensions of voting rights law from Shaw v.
Reno (1993) to Northwest Austin Utility v. Holder (2009), the book
highlights the complicated nature of the post-racial rhetoric
surrounding the 2008 election cycle and surrounding the upcoming
post-2010 census redistricting cycles.
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