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-- Amendment 17By Hay, Jeffc2010., Greenhaven Press/Gale Cengage Learning Call No: 342.73 COA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Constitutional amendments : beyond the Bill of RightsSummary Note: This book presents the historical background of the Seventeenth Amendment, an amendment in which the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state, elected by the people of the state.
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2004., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 324.6 MAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Point/counterpointSummary Note: Presents varying perspectives on the issue of election reform in the United States, discussing voting rights laws, campaign contributions, and the regulation of television advertisements and campaign coverage, and including a look at the future of American democracy.
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2019., Adolescent, Bloomsbury Call No: HI-INT 324.62 AND Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice. Focusing on the aftermath of Shelby, Anderson follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans as the nation gears up for the 2020 presidential election season"--
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-- 1 person, 1 vote[2022]., Pantheon Books Call No: 324.6 SEA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Nicholas Seabrook, authority on constitutional and election law, and expert on gerrymandering, begins with the earliest gerrymandering (pronounced with a hard 'g'!) before our nation's founding with the rigging of American elections for partisan and political gain and the election-meddling of the colonial governor of North Carolina (George Burrington) in retaliation against his critics. The author writes of Patrick Henry, who used redistricting to settle an old score with political foe and fellow Founding Father, James Madison, almost preventing the Bill of Rights from happening and of Elbridge Gerry, the Massachusetts governor from whom the naming of gerrymander derives"--Provided by publisher.
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By Monroe, Judy2002., Enslow Publishers Call No: 342.73 MON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Headline court casesSummary Note: Examines the efforts to gain the right for women in the United States to vote, focusing on the trial of Susan B. Anthony for illegally voting in the presidential election in 1872.
