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.
  • 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.
      by 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.
      by Benjamin Studebaker
    • "We the People"; US Constitution

      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.
      by Aziz Rana, 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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