But when I sat down to write the chapter, I ran into trouble. I envisioned that chapter as a simple preamble to a detailed investigation of the ways in which working people did and did not participate in elections. My outline for that book-developed after several years of research-called for a stage-setting chapter about the legal and political history of the right to vote. A half dozen years ago, I began to draft a different book, a highly quantitative study of working-class participation in electoral politics in the United States. I have come to believe that books have fortuitous or unforeseen beginnings, and this one is no exception. Race and the Second Reconstruction, 257 Universal Suffrage, 268 The Value of the Vote, 284 Two Uneasy Pieces, 302 Getting the Electorate to the Polls, 311 Conclusion: The Project of Democracy Stasis and Its Sources, 226 Franklin Roosevelt and the Death of Blackstone, 237 War and Race, 244 “Our Oldest National Minority, 253 8 T O WA R D U N I V E R S A L S U F F R A G E - A N D B E Y O N D 7 Women’s Suffrage From Seneca Falls to the Fifteenth Amendment, 173 Citizenship and Taxes, 180 Regrouping, 183 Doldrums and Democracy, 196 A Mass Movement, 202 The Nineteenth Amendment, 211 Aftermath, 218 Losing Faith, 119 Purifying the Electorate, 127 Two Special Cases, 162 Sovereignty and Self-Rule, 166 The New Electoral Universe, 168 6 Immigrants and Know-Nothings, 82 Race, War, and Reconstruction, 87 The Strange Odyssey of the Fifteenth Amendment, 93 The Lesser Effects of War, 104 The South Redeemed, 105 5
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The Course of Things, 27 Sources of Expansion, 33 Ideas and Arguments, 42 3īacksliding and Sideslipping Women, African Americans, and Native Americans, 54 Paupers, Felons, and Migrants, 61 Registration and Immigration, 65 Democracy, the Working Class, and American Exceptionalism, 67 A Case in Point: The War in Rhode Island, 71 The Received Legacy, 5 The Revolution and the Vote, 8 The States and the Nation, 21 2 T H E R O A D T O P A RT I A L D E M O C R A C Y 1 The right to vote : the contested history of democracy in the United States / Alexander Keyssar p. Designed by Rachel Hegarty Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Keyssar, Alexander. For information, address Basic Books, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022-5299. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. THE RIGHT TO VOTE The Contested History of Democracy in the United StatesĬopyright © 2000 by Alexander Keyssar Published by Basic Books A Member of the Perseus Books Group All rights reserved.