The Right to Vote by Keyssar, Alexander -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Dedication List of Tables Introduction PART I - The Road to Partial Democracy

ONE - In the Beginning

The Received Legacy The Revolution and the Vote The States and the Nation

TWO - Democracy Ascendant

The Course of Things Sources of Expansion Ideas and Arguments

THREE - Backsliding and Sideslipping

Women, African Americans, and Native Americans Paupers, Felons, and Migrants Registration and Immigration Democracy, the Working Class, and American Exceptionalism A Case in Point: The War in Rhode Island

PART II - Narrowing the Portals

FOUR - Know-Nothings, Radicals, and Redeemers

Immigrants and Know-Nothings Race, War, and Reconstruction The Strange Odyssey of the Fifteenth Amendment The Lesser Effects of War The South Redeemed

FIVE - The Redemption of the North

Losing Faith Purifying the Electorate Postscript: Fraud, Class, and Motives Two Special Cases Sovereignty and Self-Rule The New Electoral Universe

SIX - Women’s Suffrage

From Seneca Falls to the Fifteenth Amendment Citizenship and Taxes Regrouping Doldrums and Democracy A Mass Movement The Nineteenth Amendment Aftermath

PART III - Toward Universal Suffrage—and Beyond

SEVEN - The Quiet Years

Stasis and Its Sources Franklin Roosevelt and the Death of Blackstone War and Race “Our Oldest National Minority”

EIGHT - Breaking Barriers

Race and the Second Reconstruction Universal Suffrage The Value of the Vote Two Uneasy Pieces Getting the Electorate to the Polls

NINE - The Story Unfinished

November 2000 What Is to Be Done? Helping Americans Vote Crime and Punishment Suppression and Fraud Boundaries of Competence A Constitutional Right to Vote November 2008

APPENDIX - State Suffrage Laws, 1775-1920 APPENDIX SOURCES NOTES INDEX Copyright Page