Voting Rights on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents - Hardcover

Charles L. Zelden

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1576077942 ISBN 13: 9781576077948

Publisher: ABC-CLIO (UK), 2002

Synopsis

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

The debate over who can and cannot vote has been on trial" since the American Revolution. Throughout U.S. history, the franchise has been awarded and denied on the basis of wealth, status, gender, ethnicity, and race. Featuring a unique mix of analysis and documentation, Voting Rights on Trial illuminates the long, slow, and convoluted path by which vote denial and dilution were first addressed, and then defeated, in the courts.

Four narrative chapters survey voting rights from colonial times to the 2000 presidential election, focus on key court cases, and examine the current voting climate. The volume includes analysis of voting rights in the new century and their implications for future electoral contests. The coverage concludes with selections of documents from cases discussed, relevant statutes and amendments, and other primary sources."

About this title

About the Author

Charles L. Zelden is professor of history at Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL. His published works include ABC-CLIO's Voting Rights on Trial.

Edition details

• Publisher: ABC-CLIO (UK)
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1576077942
• ISBN 13: 9781576077948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368