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] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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