The United States of America: Making Exceptions to Universal Suffrage —
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The United States of America: Making Exceptions to Universal Suffrage

This article examines laws in place in the United States that work to disenfranchise certain segments of the population, specifically the criminal and disabled. The authors argue that though these laws remain, they are largely anarchronistic vestiges of early attempts to seperate from democracy those individuals believed to be inferior in some capacity.

Making Exceptions to Universal Suffrage.pdf — PDF document, 93Kb

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