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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The originalist view of elections was unenlightened. The Constitution gave the Electoral College authority to choose the president. and state lawmakers voted for Senator. Eventually white male landowners won the ballot. Former Clinton speechwriter Michael Waldman, now running the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, tracks how we got to (kind of) universal suffrage, and recounts recent efforts at voter suppression. Fun fact: In the original days of fake news, Abe Lincoln funded a German-language newspaper to get out the immigrant vote. Eventually and profoundly, one man one vote became more than a slogan. A good book by an obviously biased author; the problem is that I share most if not all of his biases and still think that he did a good job. The idea here is to go back to the founding fathers and figure out what they wanted in a country. Of course, they did not know what or how the country would develop, but the author is reasonable on their anti black views the and their refusal or their inability to set up a voting protocol. Clearly we have come a long way, from the times of the founding fathers when you could only vote if you were a white owner of sufficient property. The franchise was expanded over time through various means, mostly due to either the people or the legislature acting. The last fifty years has seen an expansion of the court in the vote and the author believes (as I do) that the Roberts court is determined to set the country back. He does not believe that they will succeed and offers a number of ways that we can offset this. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Michael Waldman takes a succinct and comprehensive look at a crucial American struggle: the drive to define and defend government based on "the consent of the governed." From the beginning, and at every step along the way, as Americans sought to right to vote, others have fought to stop them. This is the first book to trace the full story from the founders' debates to today's challenges: a wave of restrictive voting laws, partisan gerrymanders, the flood of campaign money unleashed by Citizens United. Americans are proud of our democracy. But today that system seems to be under siege, and the right to vote has become the fight to vote. In fact, that fight has always been at the heart of our national story, and raucous debates over how to expand democracy have always been at the center of American politics. At first only a few property owners could vote. Over two centuries, working class white men, former slaves, women, and finally all Americans won the right to vote. The story goes well beyond voting rules to issues of class, race, political parties, and campaign corruption. It's been raw, rowdy, a fierce, and often rollicking struggle for power. Waldman's The Fight to Vote is a compelling story of our struggle to uphold our most fundamental democratic ideals. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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