The most fundamental right
Subtitle: contrasting perspectives on the Voting Rights Act
By: edited by Daniel McCool
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780253001924; 9780253001948
Subjects: United States; Suffrage; Congresses; Minorities
Notes: "The initial impetus for this book was a forum on voting rights at the University of Utah in 2006"--P. xi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Meaningful votes  -- Daniel McCool -- The; title: constitutional foundations of the "preclearance" process : how section 5 of the Voting Rights Act was enforced, 1965-2005  -- Peyton McCrary; title: Influence district and the courts : a concept in need of clarity  -- Richard L. Engstrom -- The; title: Bull Connor is dead myth : or why we need strong, effectively enforced voting rights laws  -- Laughlin McDonald; title: Bull Connor is long dead : let's move on  -- Abigail Thernstrom -- The; title: Voting Rights Act in South Dakota : one litigator's perspective on reauthorization  -- Bryan L. Sells; title: Realistic expectations : South Dakota's experience with the Voting Rights Act  -- Chris Nelson -- The; title: continuing need for the language-assistance provisions of the Voting Rights Act  -- James Thomas Tucker; title: Policy and constitutional objections to section 203 of the Voting Rights Act  -- Roger Clegg; title: After NAMUDNO : the shape of future litigation  -- Edward Blum; title: Looking backward to and forward from the 2006 Voting Rights Act reauthorization -- Debo P. Adegbile.