Democracy for All
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Democracy for All

Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Democracy for All

Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.

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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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Full Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1 Introduction
  9. Chapter 2 The Rise and Fall of Immigrant Voting in U.S. History: 1776 to 1926
  10. Chapter 3 The Return of Immigrant Voting: Demographic Change and Political Mobilization
  11. Chapter 4 The Case for Immigrant Voting Rights
  12. Chapter 5 Contemporary Immigrant Voting: Maryland, New York, and Chicago
  13. Chapter 6 Campaigns to Restore Immigrant Voting Rights: California, New York, Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts
  14. Chapter 7 The Future of Immigrant Voting
  15. Works Cited
  16. Notes
  17. Index