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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | 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 triggered an unending struggle over voting rights.-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674989344 0674989341 9780674989320 0674989325 |