Voting rights on trial : a handbook with cases, laws, and documents /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zelden, Charles L., 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2002]
Series:Whittingham, Richard. On trial.
Subjects:
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.