Democracy for All : Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.
by
Ron Hayduk
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0415950724
ISBN-13
9780415950725
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 13th, 2006
Print length
260 Pages
Weight
540 grams
Product Classification:
Politics & government
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Examining the politics of voting in the United States, this book shows how voting rights can empower minority groups. It presents arguments for and against non-citizen voting rights, and also examines contemporary political organisations and actors, who fought for and against campaigns to reinstate non-citizen voting.
First published in 2006. Voting is for citizens only, right? Not exactly. It is not widely known that immigrants, or noncitizens, currently vote in local elections in over a half dozen cities and towns in the U.S.; nor that campaigns to expand the franchise to noncitizens have been launched in at least a dozen other jurisdictions from coast to coast over the past decade. These practices have their roots in another little-known fact: for most of the country''s history - from the founding until the 1920s - noncitizens voted in forty states and federal territories in local, state, and even federal elections, and also held.
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