Ballot Box Battle
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Author | : Emily Arnold McCully |
Publisher | : Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2014-11-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307792846 |
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Illustrated in full color. Just in time for the presidential election comes Caldecott medalist Emily Arnold McCully's stirring tale of a young girl's act of bravery inspired by the great Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is the fall of 1880, and Cordelia is more interested in horse riding than in hearing her neighbor, Mrs. Stanton talk about her fight for women's suffrage. But on Election Day, Mrs. Stanton tells the heart-wrenching story of her childhood. Charged with the story's message, Cordelia determines to go with Mrs. Stanton to the polls in an attempt to vote--above the jeers and taunts of the male crowd. With faces, landscapes, and action scenes brought to life by McCully's virtuosic illustrations, Cordelia's turning-point experience is sure to inspire today's young girls (and boys) everywhere.
Author | : Emily Arnold McCully |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1996-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780605356283 |
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Author | : Edward Foley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190235276 |
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"The 2000 presidential election, with its problems in Florida, was not the first major vote-counting controversy in the nation's history--nor the last. Ballot Battles traces the evolution of America's experience with these disputes, from 1776 to now, explaining why they have proved persistently troublesome and offering an institutional solution"--
Author | : Henry Clarke Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : Slavery |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Clarke Wright |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2018-01-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780428375027 |
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Excerpt from Ballot Box and Battle Field: To Voters Under the United States Government No. Men kill their enemies solely to benefit themselves. The war making power assumes that this is right. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Henry Clarke 1797-1870 Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2016-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781360506562 |
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Author | : Edward B. Foley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2024-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197775845 |
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The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determined by a handful of votes and marred by claims of fraud. Since the founding of the nation, violence frequently erupted as the votes were being counted, and more than a few elections produced manifestly unfair results. Despite America's claim to be the world's greatest democracy, its adherence to the basic tenets of democratic elections-the ability to count ballots accurately and fairly even when the stakes are high-has always been shaky. A rigged gubernatorial election in New York in 1792 nearly ended in calls for another revolution, and an 1899 gubernatorial race even resulted in an assassination. Though acts of violence have decreased in frequency over the past century, fairness and accuracy in ballot counting nonetheless remains a basic problem in American political life. In Ballot Battles, Edward Foley presents a sweeping history of election controversies in the United States, tracing how their evolution generated legal precedents that ultimately transformed how we determine who wins and who loses. While weaving a narrative spanning over two centuries, Foley repeatedly returns to an originating event: because the Founding Fathers despised parties and never envisioned the emergence of a party system, they wrote a constitution that did not provide clear solutions for high-stakes and highly-contested elections in which two parties could pool resources against one another. Moreover, in the American political system that actually developed, politicians are beholden to the parties which they represent - and elected officials have typically had an outsized say in determining the outcomes of extremely close elections that involve recounts. This underlying structural problem, more than anything else, explains why intense ballot battles that leave one side feeling aggrieved will continue to occur for the foreseeable future. American democracy has improved dramatically over the last two centuries. But the same cannot be said for the ways in which we determine who wins the very close races. From the founding until today, there has been little progress toward fixing the problem. Indeed, supporters of John Jay in 1792 and opponents of Lyndon Johnson in the 1948 Texas Senate race would find it easy to commiserate with Al Gore after the 2000 election. Ballot Battles is not only the first full chronicle of contested elections in the US. It also provides a powerful explanation of why the American election system has been-and remains-so ineffective at deciding the tightest races in a way that all sides will agree is fair.
Author | : Annabelle Howard |
Publisher | : Benchmark Education Company |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Children's plays |
ISBN | : 1410823059 |
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This is the story of Susan B. Anthony's brave struggle for women's suffrage in America. Anyone who takes voting for granted has a lot to learn from reading this play.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1937* |
Genre | : Government aid to education |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Wendell W. Cultice |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992-05-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0313279624 |
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This is the first full history dealing with the voting age in the United States from 1607 to 1991 that shows how military service and suffrage have been linked through the years. Although the study points to standards regarding the right to vote back to Athens and Rome and to Europe in the Middle Ages, the account focuses on contemporary America and reviews federal and state action up to the ratification of the 26th Amendment giving 18-year-olds the right to vote. This popularly written study is designed for students of government and for broad audiences in college, university, high school, and public libraries. This history of the voting age in the United States covers the military influence on the ballot box from 1607 to 1941; Congressional concerns from 1941 to 1952; public and political debates across the nation from 1953 to 1960; the mobilization of the young from 1961 to 1969; and executive, legislative, and court action in 1970 and 1971 leading up to the ratification of the 26th Amendment. The study provides an overview of the youth vote since 1971 and points to voting experiences in Australia, Canada, England, and New Zealand. A short summary is provided at the end of the book, along with a list of references, and a general index.