The Embattled Vote in America : : From the Founding to the Present / / Allan J. Lichtman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Lichtman, Allan J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: Voters and Nonvoters --; 1. The Founding Fathers’ Mistake --; 2. A White Man’s Republic --; 3. Constructing and Deconstructing the Vote --; 4. Votes for Women --; 5. The Absent Voter --; 6. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 --; 7. The New Wars over the Vote --; 8. Reforming American Voting --; Conclusion: The Embattled Vote --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674989344; 9783110606621
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674989344
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 triggered an unending struggle over voting rights.