The Most Fundamental Right

Contrasting Perspectives on the Voting Rights Act
Herausgeber: Mccool, Daniel

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Produktbeschreibung

Daniel McCool is Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah and author (with Susan Olson and Jennifer Robinson) of Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9780253001948
• ISBN-10: 0253001943
• Artikelnr.: 34924857

Autorenporträt

Daniel McCool is Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah and author (with Susan Olson and Jennifer Robinson) of Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Section I: The Political and Legal Context of the Voting Rights Act
1. Meaningful Votes \Daniel McCool
2. The Constitutional Foundations of the "Pre-Clearance" Process: How
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act Was Enforced, 1965-2005 \Peyton McCrary
3. Influence District and the Courts: A Concept in Need of Clarity \Richard
Engstrom
Section II: The Debate
4. The Bull Connor Is Dead Myth: Or Why We Need Strong, Effectively
Enforced Voting Rights Laws \Laughlin McDonald
5. Bull Connor is Long Dead: Let's Move On \Abigail Thernstrom
6. The Voting Rights Act in South Dakota: One Litigator's Perspective on
Reauthorization \Bryan Sells
7. Realistic Expectations: South Dakota's Experience with the Voting Rights
Act \Chris Nelson
8. The Continuing Need for the Language Assistance Provisions of the Voting
Rights Act \James Thomas Tucker
9. Policy and Constitutional Objections to Section 203 of the Voting Rights
Act \Roger Clegg
Section Three: Commentary
10. After NAMUDNO: The Shape of Future Litigation \Edward Blum
11. Looking Backward to and Forward from the 2006 Voting Rights Act
Reauthorization \Debo Adegbile