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" The right to vote : "
Donald Grier Stephenson, Jr.
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BL
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593458
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b422677
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| Main Entry
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Stephenson, D. Grier.
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| Title & Author
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The right to vote : : rights and liberties under the law /\ Donald Grier Stephenson, Jr.
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| Publication Statement
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :: ABC-CLIO,, ©2004.
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| Series Statement
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America's freedoms
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xxxiii, 453 pages ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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1851096485
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: 9781851096480
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: 1851096531
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: 9781851096534
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-433) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Suffrage-- United States-- History.
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342.73/072
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