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Voting rights have expanded and contracted—through legislation, amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and U.S. Supreme Court decisions—throughout history, reflecting the evolution of the American democratic project.
- Mindy Johnston
This is a timeline of voting rights in the United States, documenting when various groups in the country gained the right to vote or were disenfranchised.
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...
- Lesley Kennedy
Voting rights, specifically enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of different groups, have been a moral and political issue throughout United States history. Eligibility to vote in the United States is governed by the United States Constitution and by federal and state laws.
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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Sep 13, 2021 · Voting left to States by the U.S. Constitution. 1868. 14th Amendment granted voting to all U.S.-born and naturalized males. 1870. 15th Amendment grants black men the right to vote. 1915. Guinn v United States: Supreme Court struck down the "grandfather clause" as an exemption to voting.
