Expanding the Right to Vote

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Expanding the Right to Vote Mabel McKinney-Browning Director, American Bar Association Division for Public Education

To form a more perfect union … How do we share the passion, significance, and consequence of these two iconic phrases? We the People … To form a more perfect union …

…The further the limit of voting rights is extended, the stronger is the need felt to spread them still wider, for after each new concession the forces of democracy are strengthened, and its demands increase with the augmented power… Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835

Voting Rights in Early America

Civil War and Post-Reconstruction Voting Rights

Non-white Americans and the Vote

Voting Rights and Civil Rights

Current Voting

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