Description |
1 online resource (262 pages) |
Contents |
Front cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Rise and Fall of Immigrant Voting in U.S. History: 1776 to 1926; Chapter 3. The Return of Immigrant Voting: Demographic Change and Political Mobilization; Chapter 4. The Case for Immigrant Voting Rights; Chapter 5. Contemporary Immigrant Voting: Maryland, New York, and Chicago; Chapter 6. Campaigns to Restore Immigrant Voting Rights: California, New York, Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts; Chapter 7. The Future of Immigrant Voting; Works Cited; Notes; Index; Back cover |
Summary |
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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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780203956151 |
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020395615X |
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1281065218 |
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9781281065216 |
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9780203826041 |
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0203826043 |
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