Voters' rights / Micah L. Issitt.
| Author/creator |
Issitt, Micah L. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2019] |
| Description | xxxix, 755 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Credo Academic Core |
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| Series | Opinions throughout history Opinions throughout history. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | 1. The right of ownership: the first elections in the Colonies (1584-1655) -- 2. Establishing American theocracy: disenfranchisement begins in the Colonies with Catholics (1640s-1840s) -- 3. Outliers: early suffrage for persons of color and women (1640s-1790s) -- 4. America is not a direct democracy: the Electoral College and the popular vote (1788-1840s) -- 5. Owning the vote: origins of the voting debate (1700s-1800s) -- 6. Engendering citizenship: prefeminism feminists (1590s-1870s) -- 7. A hierarchy of race: ending slavery (1750s-1850s) -- 8. Voting rights for people of color: the Fifteenth Amendment (1869-1900) -- 9. Serpents of Massachusetts: Gerrymandering explained (1800s-present) -- 10. Women's work: voting from Suffragettes to Hillary Clinton (1840s-2016) -- 11. Indigenous rights: the Native American vote (1800s-present) -- 12. The statistics race: political polling and the vote (1820s-present) -- 13. Paying to vote: introduction of the Poll Tax (1600s-present) -- 14. Civil rights and voting rights: Voting Rights Act (1965-present) -- 15. Age of citizenship: Voting Rights Act Amendment (1970) -- 16. Reading the fine print: literacy testing (1865-1965) -- 17. The fight for access: the elderly and the physically handicapped (1700s-present) -- 18. Voting at home: residency requirements (1970s-2000s) -- 19. Losing the right to vote: voting and the incarcerated (1729-2015) -- 20. The voting state of mind: voting and mental competency (1700s-present) -- 21. A citizen's right: resident aliens and the right to vote (1700s-present) -- 22. The unpopular vote: the ongoing debate about the Electoral College (2000s-present) -- 23. Identity and the right to vote: the battle over voter ID laws (1950s-present) -- 24. The right to change: felon disenfranchisement and race (1960s-present) -- 25. Interference and ideology: foreign influence in the American electoral process (1700-present) -- 26. The specter of fraud: public opinion about voter fraud (1888-present) -- 27. Modernizing the vote: voting in the digital age (2010s-present) -- 28. Getting out the vote: voter participation, past and future (1700s-present) -- 29. Conclusion: the importance of the vote. |
| Abstract | Grey House Publishing is pleased to offer the eighth volume in a new series - Opinions Throughout History. Each single, in-depth volume is designed to follow the evolution of public opinion on a current, controversial topic as it changed throughout American history. Each volume includes a range of primary and secondary source documents, including newspaper and magazine articles, speeches, court decision, and other legislation. These documents are accompanied by expert commentary and analysis to guide the reader through the process of how each document contributed to, or is a reflection of, changing attitudes on important issues of public interest. This eighth volume - Opinions Throughout History: Voters' Rights - starts with a detailed Introduction that highlights the important topics that have shaped the right to vote in the United States. A comprehensive Timeline follows, highlighting significant events in voter enfranchisement from the first vote held in 1607 in the New World to elect a leader of the Virginia Colony to the 2019 delay in North Carolina to implement voter ID requirements. Following the Timeline, 28 chapters comprehensively and chronologically trace the history of the right to vote from white, male, property-owning Christians to every American, with an exception or two, to this day. The detailed Table of Contents summarizes the depth of topics covered: ·Short time in Colonial America when women, people of color, and non-citizens were allowed to vote; History of religious disenfranchisement; ·Connection between basic rights established by the abolition, women's rights, suffrage and civil rights movements, and enfranchisement; ·Expansion of the vote and its accompanying resistance in the form of Jim Crow laws, including poll taxes and literacy tests; ·Unique history of Native Americans disenfranchisement; ·Electoral College from Colonial America to today; ·Voting rights for felons, physically and mentally disabled; ·Political polling, voting age, voter fraud, residency requirements, voter ID laws; ·History of voter participation; ·Voting methods, from bean counting to digital technology; ·Interference in the American election process from domestic and foreign entities. -- Publisher's Note |
| Abstract | Provides readers with an in-depth exploration of not only the topic of voter suppression, but how public opinion influenced action on voters' rights, from the founding of the country, when most states limited the right to vote to property-owning males, to the establishment in 2017 of the Presidential Advisory Commission of Election Integrity, and beyond, to how voter suppression efforts affected the 2018 elections. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021301388 |
| ISBN | 9781642650686 |
| ISBN | 1642650684 |
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