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The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
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The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States Hardcover - 2000

by Alexander Keyssar


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Most Americans take for granted their right to vote, whether they choose to exercise it or not. But the history of suffrage in the U.S. is, in fact, the story of a struggle to achieve this right by our society's marginalized groups. In The Right to Vote, Duke historian Alexander Keyssar explores the evolution of suffrage over the course of the nation's history. Examining the many features of the history of the right to vote in the U.S.--class, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, and age--the book explores the conditions under which American democracy has expanded and contracted over the years.Keyssar presents convincing evidence that the history of the right to vote has not been one of a steady history of expansion and increasing inclusion, noting that voting rights contracted substantially in the U.S. between 1850 and 1920. Keyssar also presents a controversial thesis: that the primary factor promoting the expansion of the suffrage has been war and the primary factors promoting contraction or delaying expansion have been class tension and class conflict.

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AS THE MEN WHO WOULD LATER BE CALLED "the framers" of the United States Constitution trickled into Philadelphia during the late spring of 1787 (most of them arrived late), they had weighty issues on their minds: whether the Articles of Confederation should be revised or replaced with an altogether new plan of government; how the federal government could be made stronger without undermining the power of the states; resolving the already brewing conflict over the apportionment of representatives between large and small states; and contending with the freighted and divisive matter of slavery.

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  • Title The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
  • Author Alexander Keyssar
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Date August 21, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780465029686 / 046502968X
  • Weight 1.86 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.54 x 6.52 x 1.44 in (24.23 x 16.56 x 3.66 cm)
  • Reading level 1580
  • Library of Congress subjects Voting - United States - History, Suffrage - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00034299
  • Dewey Decimal Code 342.6
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