The Rise of Guardian Democracy : : The Supreme Court's Role in Voting Rights Disputes, 1845-1969 / / Ward E. Y. Elliott.

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• VerfasserIn: Elliott, Ward E. Y.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1974
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Political Studies ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (391 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- I. Introduction: The Dynamics of Democracy and the Guardian Ethic -- II. Voting Rights in the Pre-Intervention Period, 1776-1868 -- III. Intervention by Interpretation, 1868-1962: The Black Voting Rights Progression -- IV. Urbanisin and the Equal Districts Progression: From the Progressive Reformation to the Guardian Ethic -- V. Political Questions, Wine, and Cod-liver Oil-the Tactics of Transubstantiation in the Legislative Period -- VI. The Fundamental Principle and the Quagmire -- VII. Prometheus, Proteus, Pandora, and Procrustes Unbound: The Political Consequences of Reapportionment -- VIII. The Court's Constituencies, Constitutional Atheism, and the Future of the Guardian Ethic -- Epilogue: Was There a Better Way to Do It? -- Appendix Voting and Electoral Provisions of the Constitution -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Table of Cases -- Index -- Backmatter