Voting rights on trial
Subtitle: a handbook with cases, laws, and documents
By: Charles L. Zelden.
Series: ABC-CLIO's on trial series; On trial.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Suffrage -- United States.; Voting -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: The strange career of voting in the United States; title: The right to vote: a short history of a contested right; title: Vote denial : democracy's dark secret; title: The courts say no to expanded votings rights; title: The fall of the all-white primary; title: Victory and defeat in the lower federal courts; title: The one person/one vote standard; title: The Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the attack on race-based vote denial; title: Vote dilution, redistricting, and the shift from at-large elections to single-member districts; title: The conservative reaction to expanded voting rights; title: Equal protection or equal effect? Voting rights in the Twenty-first Century; title: The election the judges resolved : Bush v. Gore and the debate over the nationalization of voting in America; title: Foundations : the Constitution of the United States; title: The courts say no to expanded voting rights : Elk v. Wilkins and Minor v. Happersett; title: The fall of the all-white primary : Smith v. Allwright; title: Victory and defeat in the lower federal courts : Terry v. Adams; title: The one person/one vote standard : Reynolds v. Sims; title: Voting Rights Act of 1965; title: Vote dilution and the shift from at-large to single-member districts : Allen v. State Board of Elections; title: The conservative reaction to expanding voting rights : dissents in Reynolds and Allen ; majority in Shaw; title: The debate over nationalization of voting rights : Bush v. Gore.