Voting Rights: A Retrospective
Voting Rights: A Retrospective
Voting Rights: A Retrospective
This exhibit chronicles the ebb and flow of voting rights in America, from the Founding Era to the current day.
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Founding Era
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Voting Rights: A Retrospective
Founding Era
Founding Era
Our Chief Danger
The story of the democratic movements that the framers of the U.S. Constitution feared and sought to suppress.
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William Hogeland
The Tyranny of the Minority, from Iowa Caucus to Electoral College
The problem of minority rule isn’t Trumpian or temporary; it’s bipartisan and enduring.
by
Corey Robin
3 Ways to Think About the American Revolution
The complex combination of grievances that fueled the war had to do with taxes, class, and nationalism.
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Benjamin Studebaker
It Would Be Great if the United States Were Actually a Democracy
The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.
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Aziz Rana
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Chris Maisano
Reconstruction
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Women's Suffrage
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Civil Rights Movement
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Voting Rights Today
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