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Voting rights have expanded and contracted—through landmark legislation, constitutional amendments, and U.S. Supreme Court decisions—throughout history, reflecting the evolution of the American democratic project and ultimately embracing the diversity of the electorate.
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After a long struggle beginning in the mid-19th century,...
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Adults aged 18 through 21 are granted the right to vote by the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This was enacted in response to Vietnam War protests, which argued that soldiers who were old enough to fight for their country should be granted the right to vote.
Apr 19, 2021 · Since America’s founding days, when voting was limited to white male property owners, to the transformative Voting Rights Act of 1965, to sweeping voting process reform introduced in the early...
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The Fifteenth Amendment, one of three ratified after the American Civil War to grant freedmen full rights of citizenship, prevented any state from denying the right to vote to any citizen based on race.
Within just a few months, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, and on August 6, 1965, Johnson signed it into law. In the decades since the passage of the VRA, its protections have been...
May 27, 2021 · The right to vote has long been considered one of the cherished freedoms key to American democracy. But voting rights in general were very limited in the Founders’ time and have changed greatly since then. The Constitution took effect in early 1789 after the first federal elections.
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After a long struggle beginning in the mid-19th century, women finally received the right to vote in all U.S. states in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, which prohibited voter discrimination based on sex (see women’s suffrage).
