The embattled vote in America : from the founding to the present / Allan J. Lichtman.
Americans have died for the right to vote. Yet our democratic system guarantees no one, not even citizens, the opportunity to elect a government. Allan Lichtman calls attention to the founders' greatest error--leaving the franchise to the discretion of individual states--and explains why it has...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Voters and non-voters
- The founding father's mistake
- A white man's republic
- Constructing and deconstructing the vote
- Votes for women
- The absent voter
- The Voting Rights Act of 1965
- The new wars over the vote
- Reforming American voting
- Conclusion: The embattled vote.