The embattled vote in America : from the founding to the present /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lichtman, Allan J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Suffrage > United States > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights
Suffrage.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Voters and non-voters
  • The founding father's mistake
  • A white man's republic
  • Constructing and deconstructing the vote
  • Votes for women
  • The absent voter
  • The Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • The new wars over the vote
  • Reforming American voting
  • Conclusion: The embattled vote.

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