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Voting Rights Act of 1965; Long title: An Act to enforce the fifteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. Acronyms (colloquial) VRA: Nicknames: Voting Rights Act: Enacted by: the 89th United States Congress: Effective: August 6, 1965: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 89–110: Statutes at Large: 79 Stat ...
A Companion to Thomas Jefferson (2012), 648 pp; 34 essays by scholars focusing on how historians have handled Jefferson. online Robertson, Andrew W. "Afterword: Reconceptualizing Jeffersonian Democracy," Journal of the Early Republic (2013) 33#2 pp. 317–334 on recent voting studies online
Iowa restores the voting rights of felons who completed their prison sentences. [60] Nebraska ends lifetime disenfranchisement of people with felonies but adds a five-year waiting period. [63] 2006. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was extended for the fourth time by President George W. Bush, being the second extension of 25 years. [65]
The Overseas Citizens Voting Rights Act of 1976 was the first bill to enshrine the constitutional right to vote in federal elections into law for U.S. citizens living overseas. This bill also established uniform absentee voting procedures for U.S. citizens living overseas in federal elections.
The influence of Jefferson's doctrine of states' rights reverberated right up to the Civil War and beyond. [2] Future president James Garfield, at the close of the Civil War, said that Jefferson's Kentucky Resolution "contained the germ of nullification and secession, and we are today reaping the fruits". [2]
Voting Rights Act, amendments of 1970; Long title: An Act To extend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with respect to the discriminatory use of tests, and for other purposes: Enacted by: the 91st United States Congress: Effective: June 22, 1970: Citations; Public law: 91-285: Statutes at Large: 84 Stat. 314: Codification; Acts amended: Voting ...
Election laws had been fairly constant since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by Congress, Shew said. But that changed in 2013, when the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out a key provision of ...
The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), also known as the Motor Voter Act, is a United States federal law signed into law by President Bill Clinton on May 20, 1993, that came into effect on January 1, 1995. [1]