The Rise of Guardian Democracy : The Supreme Court's Role in Voting Rights Disputes, 1845-1969 / Ward E. Y. Elliott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliott, Ward E. Y., author.

Series:

Harvard Political Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suffrage--United States--History.

Suffrage.

United States. Supreme Court.

Local Subjects:

Suffrage--United States--History.

United States. Supreme Court.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Tables

I. Introduction: The Dynamics of Democracy and the Guardian Ethic

II. Voting Rights in the Pre-Intervention Period, 1776-1868

III. Intervention by Interpretation, 1868-1962: The Black Voting Rights Progression

IV. Urbanisin and the Equal Districts Progression: From the Progressive Reformation to the Guardian Ethic

V. Political Questions, Wine, and Cod-liver Oil-the Tactics of Transubstantiation in the Legislative Period

VI. The Fundamental Principle and the Quagmire

VII. Prometheus, Proteus, Pandora, and Procrustes Unbound: The Political Consequences of Reapportionment

VIII. The Court's Constituencies, Constitutional Atheism, and the Future of the Guardian Ethic

Epilogue: Was There a Better Way to Do It?

Appendix Voting and Electoral Provisions of the Constitution

Bibliography

Notes

Table of Cases

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-33102-8

OCLC:

1013937742