 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1964 - 980 páginas
...299, 315, nor diluted by ballot-box stuffing, Ex parte Siebold, 100 US 371, United States v. Saylor, 322 US 385. As the Court stated in Classic, "Obviously...expansion of the scope of the right of suffrage in this country.28 The right to vote freely for the candidate of one's choice is of the essence of a democratic... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments - 1970 - 682 páginas
...conducting of white primaries, Nixon v. Herndon, 273 US 536, Nixon v. Condon, 286 US 73, Smith v. Allwrigkt, 321 US 649, Terry v. Adams, 345 US 461, both of which...The right to vote freely for the candidate of one's "The Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Amendments to the Federal Constitution... | |
 | Pamela Brandwein - 1999 - 292 páginas
...preferences, not the Constitution. The majority did attempt to use history in a generalized way, arguing that "history has seen a continuing expansion of the scope of the right of suffrage in this country,"21 and extracting a principle of equal citizenship from a number of historical documents.... | |
 | Lani Guinier, Susan Sturm - 2001 - 132 páginas
...national debate on the terms of participation in equivalent forms of citizenship is long overdue. Just as "history has seen a continuing expansion of the scope of the right of suffrage in this country,"30 so we would argue that twenty-first-century democracy will depend on a commensurate expansion... | |
 | Mervin Evans - 2005
...national debate on the terms of participation in equivalent forms of citizenship is long overdue. Just as "history has seen a continuing expansion of the scope of the right of suffrage in this country," So we would argue that 21st-century democracy will depend on a commensurate expansion of the scope... | |
 | Elizabeth Hull - 2009 - 232 páginas
...attitude has not prevailed, and by 1964 the same tribunal could accurately say that "history has been a continuing expansion of the scope of the right of suffrage in this country."5 State conventions in the 1820s and 1830s set the expansion in motion. Then, one by one,... | |
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Obviously included within the right to choose, secured by the Constitution, is the right of qualified voters within a state to cast their ballots and have them counted . . . ." 313 US, at 315. Racially based gerrymandering, Gomillion v. Lightfoot, 364... 