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xvii, 347 pages ; 24 cm, Explores the history, evolution, and effects of voting rights in the United States, discussing how unpopular groups have often been denied voting rights throughout history; includes supporting materials designed to help readers understand the issues raised by voting rights, Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-330) and index, The strange career of voting in the United States -- The right to vote: a short history of a contested right -- Vote denial : democracy's dark secret -- The courts say no to expanded votings rights -- The fall of the all-white primary -- Victory and defeat in the lower federal courts -- The one person/one vote standard -- The Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the attack on race-based vote denial -- Vote dilution, redistricting, and the shift from at-large elections to single-member districts -- The conservative reaction to expanded voting rights -- Equal protection or equal effect? Voting rights in the Twenty-first Century -- The election the judges resolved : Bush v. Gore and the debate over the nationalization of voting in America -- Foundations : the Constitution of the United States -- The courts say no to expanded voting ri

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Author

Zelden, Charles L., 1963-

Publisher

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781576077948

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Law, Social_sciences