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Defining Documents in American History: Voters’ Rights

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Introduction—Voting Rights and Challenges




Contributors




Voting and Dissent in the Early Republic




Federalist Paper No. 52




Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution




The “People’s Constitution” and Dorr’s Rebellion




Henry David Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience”




Votes for Women!




Seneca Falls Convention: Declaration of Sentiments




Susan B. Anthony: “Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?”




Petition to U.S. Congress for Women’s Suffrage




Jane Addams: “Why Women Should Vote”




Alice Paul: Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee




Anna Howard Shaw: “Women’s Suffrage in a Democratic Republic”




Prison Writings of a Radical Suffragist




Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution




Voter Rights and Civil Rights




Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution




A Contested Election: Report to Congress on the Activities of the Ku Klux Klan




Booker T. Washington: “Statement on Suffrage”




Guinn v. United States




Indian Citizenship Act




Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: “The Negro Woman and the Ballot”




Smith v. Allwright




Malcolm X: “The Ballot or the Bullet”




Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution




Speech before Congress on Voting Rights




Voting Rights Act of 1965




Voting Changes in the Modern Era




Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution




Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution




National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA)




Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA)




Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Polling Place Accessibility Checklist




Civics Test for Naturalization




Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022




Voting in Dispute




Baker v. Carr




Reynolds v. Sims




Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC




Richardson v. Ramirez




Buckley v. Valeo




Shaw v. Reno




Bush v. Gore




Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission




Shelby County v. Holder




Cooper v. Harris




Rucho v. Common Cause




Voting and Political Division Today




Statement to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee concerning Cambridge Analytica




Remarks by President Biden One Year after the January 6 Assault on the U.S. Capitol




“Texas Limits Mail Voting, Adds ID Requirements After Surge in Turnout”




“Republican Resolution Would Declare Trump the Winner in 2024, Regardless of What Voters Say”




Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography