Voting rights on trial : a handbook with cases, laws, and documents /
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| Language: | English |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
ABC-CLIO,
[2002]
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| Series: | Whittingham, Richard. On trial.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 rights : Elk v. Wilkins and Minor v. Happersett
- The fall of the all-white primary : Smith v. Allwright
- Victory and defeat in the lower federal courts : Terry v. Adams
- The one person/one vote standard : Reynolds v. Sims
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Vote dilution and the shift from at-large to single-member districts : Allen v. State Board of Elections
- The conservative reaction to expanding voting rights : dissents in Reynolds and Allen ; majority in Shaw
- The debate over nationalization of voting rights : Bush v. Gore.