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

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

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General Political ScienceImmigration & RefugeesSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0415950724
ISBN13: 9780415950725
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 13 2006
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
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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