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 trigge...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t Introduction: Voters and Nonvoters --   |t 1. The Founding Fathers’ Mistake --   |t 2. A White Man’s Republic --   |t 3. Constructing and Deconstructing the Vote --   |t 4. Votes for Women --   |t 5. The Absent Voter --   |t 6. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 --   |t 7. The New Wars over the Vote --   |t 8. Reforming American Voting --   |t Conclusion: The Embattled Vote --   |t Notes --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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653 |a gerrymandering. 
653 |a partisan politics. 
653 |a voter fraud. 
653 |a voter registration. 
653 |a voter turnout. 
653 |a women's suffrage. 
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