Voting Rights on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents

The debate over who can and cannot vote has been "on trial" since the American revolution. Throughout U.S. history, the franchise has been awarded or denied on the basis of wealth, status, gender, ethnicity, and race. Featuring a unique mix of analysis and documentation, Voting Rights on Trial illuminates the long, slow, and convoluted path by which vote denial and dilution were first addressed, and then defeated, in the courts. Four narrative chapters survey voting rights from colonial tim...