Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S. - Rilegato

Hayduk, Ron

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ISBN 10: 0415950724 ISBN 13: 9780415950725

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2006

Riassunto

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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Hayduk, Ron

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415950724
• ISBN 13: 9780415950725
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 260
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania