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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
Thomas Jefferson Gave the Constitution 19 Years. Look Where We Are Now.
A meaningful new amendment hasn’t been passed in 50 years, and there is no prospect of reform anytime soon.
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Jesse Wegman
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.
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Corey Robin
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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