Deconstructing the Republic: Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Founders' Republicanism Reconsidered

by Anthony A. Peacock

Book Overview

Although the Voting Rights Act of 1965 did more to fortify American republicanism than any other civil rights legislation in American history-finally securing the right to vote for black citizens in the Jim Crow South almost one hundred years after passage of the Fifteenth Amendment-as currently implemented, the landmark law actually undermines the Founders' vision of American government. Deconstructing the Republic contends that the Founders' vision...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844742635
• ISBN13: 9780844742632
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"