Voting Rights, Voting Wrongs
Author | : Bernard Grofman |
Publisher | : Century Foundation Press |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bernard Grofman |
Publisher | : Century Foundation Press |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Waldman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2022-01-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1982198931 |
On cover, the word "right" has an x drawn over the letter "r" with the letter "f" above it.
Author | : Abigail M. Thernstrom |
Publisher | : A E I Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780844742724 |
n this provocative book, Abigail Thernstrom argues that southern resistance to black political power began a process by which the act was radically revised both for good and ill. Congress, the courts, and the Justice Department altered the statute to ensure the election of blacks and Hispanics to legislative bodies ranging from school boards and county councils to the U.S. Congress.
Author | : Gloria J. Browne-Marshall |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2016-08-22 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1442266902 |
The Voting Rights War tells the story of the courageous struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court. Readers take the journey for voting rights from slavery to the Plessy v. Ferguson case that legalized segregation in 1896 through today’s conflicts around voter suppression. The NAACP brought important cases to the Supreme Court that challenged obstacles to voting: grandfather clauses, all-White primaries, literacy tests, gerrymandering, vote dilution, felony disenfranchisement, and photo identification laws. This book highlights the challenges facing American voters, especially African Americans, the brave work of NAACP members, and the often contentious relationship between the NAACP and the Supreme Court. This book shows the human price paid for the right to vote and the intellectual stamina needed for each legal battle. The Voting Rights War follows conflicts on the ground and in the courtroom, from post-slavery voting rights and the formation of the NAACP to its ongoing work to gain a basic right guaranteed to every citizen. Whether through litigation, lobbying, or protest, the NAACP continues to play an unprecedented role in the battle for voting equality in America, fighting against prison gerrymandering, racial redistricting, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and more. The Voting Rights War highlights the NAACP’s powerful contribution and legacy.
Author | : Jason Brennan |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2012-04-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691154449 |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Voting as an Ethical Issue; CHAPTER ONE: Arguments for a Duty to Vote; CHAPTER TWO: Civic Virtue without Politics; CHAPTER THREE: Wrongful Voting; CHAPTER FOUR: Deference and Abstention; CHAPTER FIVE: For the Common Good; CHAPTER SIX: Buying and Selling Votes; CHAPTER SEVEN: How Well Do Voters Behave?; AFTERWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION: How to Vote Well; Notes; References; Index. - Nothing is more integral to democracy than voting. Most people believe that every citizen has the civic duty or moral obligation to vote, that any sincere vote is morally acceptable, and that buying, selling, or trading votes is inherently wrong. In this provocative book, Jason Brennan challenges our fundamental assumptions about voting, revealing why it is not a duty for most citizens--in fact, he argues, many people owe it to the rest of us not to vote. Bad choices at the polls can result in unjust laws, needless wars, and calamitous economic policies. Brennan shows why voters have duties to.
Author | : United States Commission on Civil Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2017-10-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781977918819 |
Voting wrongs : oversight of the Justice Department's voting rights enforcement : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, April 18, 2012.
Author | : J.D. Moore |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2015-05-07 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1329240928 |
This book is a wake-up call for voters. Voting becomes unpatriotic when we are simply choosing the lesser of evils instead of demanding better. Our leaders have together run up a crippling debt handing out entitlements and lower taxes at the same time. Both parties have proved they are simply irresponsible and cowardly. Both are buying our votes with our grandchildrens' money, while the middle class crumbles. We need a new party, with new leaders who have enough moral integrity, grit and vision to turn around a morally and financially bankrupt country.
Author | : Thom Hartmann |
Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020-02-04 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1523087803 |
"Hartmann's history of voter suppression in America is necessary information given current news about voter registration purges and redistricting...a particularly timely topic for an election year, and anyone who is seriously concerned about the survival of American democracy will want to read this book and apply its lessons."—Booklist America's #1 progressive radio host looks at how elites have long tried to disenfranchise citizens—particularly people of color, women, and the poor—and shows what we can do to ensure everyone has a voice in this democracy. In today's America, only a slim majority of people register to vote, and a large percentage of registered voters don't bother to show up: Donald Trump was elected by only 26 percent of eligible voters. Unfortunately, this is not a bug in our system, it's a feature. Thom Hartmann unveils the strategies and tactics that conservative elites in this country have used, from the foundation of the Electoral College to the latest voter ID laws, to protect their interests by preventing “the wrong people”—such as the poor, women, and people of color—from voting while making it more convenient for the wealthy and white. But he also lays out a wide variety of simple, commonsense ways that we the people can fight back and reclaim our right to rule through the ballot box.
Author | : Christopher H. Achen |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2017-08-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1400888743 |
Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about it Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific evidence, including ingenious original analyses of topics ranging from abortion politics and budget deficits to the Great Depression and shark attacks, to show that the familiar ideal of thoughtful citizens steering the ship of state from the voting booth is fundamentally misguided. They demonstrate that voters—even those who are well informed and politically engaged—mostly choose parties and candidates on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues. They also show that voters adjust their policy views and even their perceptions of basic matters of fact to match those loyalties. When parties are roughly evenly matched, elections often turn on irrelevant or misleading considerations such as economic spurts or downturns beyond the incumbents' control; the outcomes are essentially random. Thus, voters do not control the course of public policy, even indirectly. Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters. Now with new analysis of the 2016 elections, Democracy for Realists provides a powerful challenge to conventional thinking, pointing the way toward a fundamentally different understanding of the realities and potential of democratic government.