Voting Rights on Trial: A Handbook With Cases, Laws, and Documents

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ISBN: 9781576077948 | 1576077942
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/1/2002

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Explores and documents the causes and effects of the long history of vote denial on American politics, culture, law, and society.

Series Foreword

vii

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART ONE

Introduction

(36)

The Strange Career of Voting in the United States

(5)

The Right to Vote: A Short History of a Contested Right

(27)

Conclusion

(1)

References and Further Reading

(3)

Historical Background

(50)

Vote Denial: Democracy's Dark Secret

(45)

Conclusion

(2)

References and Further Reading

(3)

Cases

(72)

The Courts Say No to Expanded Voting Rights

(8)

The Fall of the All-White Primary

101

(8)

Victory and Defeat in the Lower Federal Courts

109

(10)

The One Person/One Vote Standard

119

(7)

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Attack on Race-Based Vote Denial

126

(9)

Vote Dilution, Redistricting, and the Shift from At-Large Elections to Single-Member Districts

135

(15)

The Conservative Reaction to Expanded Voting Rights

150

(7)

Conclusion

157

(1)

References and Further Reading

158

(3)

Impact and Legacy

161

(170)

Equal Protection or Equal Effect? Voting Rights in the Twenty-first Contury

161

(3)

The Election the Judges Resolved: Bush v. Gore and the Debate over the Nationalization of Voting in America

164

(14)

Conclusion

178

(2)

References and Further Reading

180

(5)

PART TWO

Documents

185

(82)

Foundations: The Constitution of the United States (1787)

185

(5)

The Courts Say No to Expanded Voting Rights: Elk v. Wilkins and Minor v. Happersett

190

(7)

The Fall of the All-White Primary: Smith v. Allwright

197

(5)

Victory and Defeat in the Lower Federal Courts: Terry v. Adams

202

(12)

The One Person/One Vote Standard: Reynolds v. Sims

214

(8)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

222

(7)

Vote Dilution and the Shift from At-Large to Single-Member Districts: Allen v. State Board of Elections

229

(5)

The Conservative Reaction to Expanding Voting Rights: Dissents in Reynolds and Allen: Majority in Shaw

234

(13)

The Debate over Nationalization of Voting Rights: Bush v. Gore

247

(20)

Key People, Laws, and Concepts

267

(26)

Chronology

293

(22)

Table of Cases

315

(4)

Annotated Bibliography

319

(12)

Index

331

(18)

About the Author

349

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Voting Rights on Trial: A Handbook With Cases, Laws, and Documents

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