Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United StatesRoutledge, 2006 - 250 էջ First published in 2006. Voting is for citizens only, right? Not exactly. It is not widely known that immigrants, or noncitizens, currently vote in local elections in over a half dozen cities and towns in the U.S.; nor that campaigns to expand the franchise to noncitizens have been launched in at least a dozen other jurisdictions from coast to coast over the past decade. These practices have their roots in another little-known fact: for most of the country's history - from the founding until the 1920s - noncitizens voted in forty states and federal territories in local, state, and even federal elections, and also held. |
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Chapter 1 Introduction
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1776 to 1926
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Demographic
Change and Political Mobilization
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Chapter 4 The Case for Immigrant Voting Rights
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Maryland
New York and Chicago
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California New York
Washington DC and Massachusetts
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Chapter 7 The Future of Immigrant Voting
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Notes | 213 |
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