Examining the politics of voting in the United States, this book shows how voting rights can empower minority groups. It presents arguments for and against non-citizen voting rights, and also examines contemporary political organisations and actors, who fought for and against campaigns to reinstate non-citizen voting. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 11 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540. . 2006. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2006
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415950724
ISBN 13: 9780415950725
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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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