Felon enfranchisement is essential to the democratic legitimacy of criminal punishment.
|
|
It is thanks to enfranchisement that this is not just slavery.
|
|
But the electoral effect of felon re-enfranchisement is likely to be modest.
|
|
It's an estimate based on historical enfranchisement efforts, so it could be off.
|
|
The rise of anti-immigrant rhetoric from Republican candidates is driving Hispanic-American enfranchisement.
|
|
But there is no self interested political reason for Republicans to fear felon enfranchisement.
|
|
And just as Shellabarger predicted, white Southerners rejected black enfranchisement at their first opportunity.
|
|
This last effort took place mere months after voters overwhelmingly passed the re-enfranchisement referendum.
|
|
Hence Israel's improvised 49-year occupation — in effect dominion over Palestinians without enfranchisement of Palestinians.
|
|
This country has historically been slow to grant full enfranchisement to people with darker skin.
|
|
The enfranchisement of women is linked with increased spending on children and lower child mortality.
|
|
The re-enfranchisement of most former felons in the state is potentially much more significant.
|
|
Black women waited more than 40 years and continue to fight for enfranchisement now with voter suppression.
|
|
It is also aware of the racialized limits on the enfranchisement that women won a century ago.
|
|
Still, there's one area where Harsanyi and Thiel can agree: Neither is a fan of mass-enfranchisement.
|
|
The big one here is Florida's referendum on felon enfranchisement, on which lots has been written already.
|
|
The claim of economic gains is based on an association between enfranchisement and the rate of reoffending.
|
|
When at last I achieved the velour Juicy sweatsuit, it felt like a kind of teen enfranchisement.
|
|
But ultimately, the citizenship question isn't about counting who is out, but who is in: It's about enfranchisement.
|
|
During the ratification process of a number of resolutions, he sided with Stanton in support of women's enfranchisement.
|
|
"Re-enfranchisement might not produce big electoral effects," Traci Burch, a political scientist at Northwestern University, told me.
|
|
Outside Florida, it's rare but not unheard-of for Republicans to support steps toward former-felon re-enfranchisement.
|
|
A race-neutral definition of citizenship and individual rights, let alone black enfranchisement, seemed absurd to most white men.
|
|
And Prohibition's titanic overreach led to the enfranchisement of new immigrant groups under the banner flag of Prohibition opposition.
|
|
In the United States, Southern Democrats reacted in a similar manner to the Reconstruction-era enfranchisement of African-Americans.
|
|
A number of candidates, including Warren and O'Rourke, have released lengthy plans addressing recent attacks on enfranchisement and ballot access.
|
|
McDonnell, despite easing the path for felons to regain voting rights, never went as far as granting wholesale, widespread re-enfranchisement.
|
|
Thiel, you'll remember, has publicly lamented the enfranchisement of women, hates the free press, and isn't so sure climate change is real.
|
|
When we were walking to the village hall, we sang en route — music and poetry can be a powerful tool for enfranchisement.
|
|
The enfranchisement of the poor led to increased spending by states on health care, according to Thomas Fujiwara, an economist at Princeton University.
|
|
This isn't a huge surprise: Turnout in 2014 was the lowest of the post-youth enfranchisement era, and by a pretty meaningful margin.
|
|
Emily Fitzpatrick is head of leasehold enfranchisement at Hart Brown solicitors, and represents leaseholders with claims over the freehold ownership of their property.
|
|
We must also support the political candidates — Democrat or Republican — who embrace voter enfranchisement, and condemn voter suppression for the undemocratic practice it is.
|
|
"The Enfranchisement of Women" is perhaps the best candidate for a work authored primarily or solely by Harriet, explains Mr Miller of Old Dominion.
|
|
"To Grant more than any other man the Negro owes his enfranchisement," wrote Frederick Douglass, a black leader and a frequent White House guest.
|
|
The laws of felon enfranchisement in California and Louisiana, for instance, are very similar to one another, as are those in Hawaii and Utah.
|
|
Enfranchisement will also naturally lead to more education because politicians want voters to be well informed about social issues and their policies, he added.
|
|
It is also part of why the Democratic presidential candidates, with the exception of Bernie Sanders, don't support the enfranchisement of those in prison.
|
|
But immigrants from Latin America and Asia were largely excluded from the old machines, both by laws limiting their naturalization and enfranchisement and by racism.
|
|
The newest commissions come under the rubric of the two-year EVE Project commemorating the ratification of the 19th Amendment and the enfranchisement of women.
|
|
Since African-Americans represented a majority or near majority in many of the post-Confederate states, Southern Democrats viewed their enfranchisement as an existential threat.
|
|
Such a movement must include automatic registration, election modernization, campaign finance reform and felony re-enfranchisement -- to empower Americans to vote for economic justice reform.
|
|
In fact, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont affirmed his support for voting rights in prison the same week Warren backed automatic enfranchisement for former felons.
|
|
Charles and David Koch — the billionaire brothers famous for throwing big dollars behind Republican candidates — are supporters of felon enfranchisement, and criminal justice reform more broadly.
|
|
The midterms did determine control of many state governments, of course, and state-level ballot initiatives on key issues like felon enfranchisement and Medicaid expansion passed.
|
|
But if it does, it probably won't be because of a single, modest demographic shift, like felon re-enfranchisement or an influx of Puerto Rican voters.
|
|
Mr Claassen measured levels of democracy using indices that tracked elements such as the cleanliness of elections, adult enfranchisement and the protection of individual and minority rights.
|
|
You're writing to your elected officials to demand affordable health care and sensible gun laws and a humane immigration policy and full enfranchisement of your fellow citizens.
|
|
Studies also show that the enfranchisement of black voters is associated with reductions in black and white education gaps, as politicians began directing more spending to black localities.
|
|
Such sentiment has only been strengthened by the region's refugee crisis and terrorist attacks by largely "home grown" terrorists, highlighting the region's failings in terms of integration and enfranchisement.
|
|
By including felon enfranchisement in a bill with many different aspects, House Democrats made it easy for McConnell to refuse to bring it to a vote in the Senate.
|
|
While citizenship need not be a necessary condition for enfranchisement — for example, San Francisco has enabled noncitizens to vote in school board elections — it should be a sufficient one.
|
|
And the shift here is part of an escalating battle over Native American enfranchisement, one that comes amid a larger wave of voting rights movements spreading across the country.
|
|
As if trumpeting the inherent fragility of full female enfranchisement, Trump supporters tweeted #repealthe19th when recent polls revealed that Trump could win if the vote were limited to men.
|
|
His view—common enough at the time, of course, and still active today in an only slightly evolved form—was that enfranchisement of black men was disenfranchisement of whites.
|
|
Previously, ex-felons could apply for re-enfranchisement from the governor and state Cabinet, but that strict clemency process was long and laborious, with no set criteria for success.
|
|
On January 8th, this protocol will be retired in favour of automatic enfranchisement for all criminals who have completed their sentences—except for those convicted of murder or sex offences.
|
|
These acts enabled the enfranchisement of black men in the South, led to the drafting of newly democratized Southern state constitutions, and helped secure the ratification of the Reconstruction amendments.
|
|
The attitude of a state towards the enfranchisement of its felons tells us next to nothing about the degree to which it leans Democrat or Republican in its federal voting record.
|
|
But when we consider all of the recent achievements, one aspect seems conspicuously excluded from the enfranchisement of plus-size, and we're left wondering, Where are all the bigger male models?
|
|
The juxtaposition is effective, since Dyke Action's mission of spotlighting the absence of lesbians from advertisements and popular culture clearly operates along the same continuum as the fight for political enfranchisement.
|
|
A majority of Americans are against giving imprisoned felons the right to vote, according to a new poll — despite ongoing conversations among 22014 Democrats about expanding enfranchisement to include all Americans.
|
|
Following the 2000 presidential election, black legislators in Florida repeatedly introduced re-enfranchisement bills, but they couldn't win the two-thirds support in the Legislature required to amend the state's Constitution.
|
|
And requiring voters to re-register disenfranchises some legitimate voters — Karim checked that the benefits aren't a result of reduced enfranchisement, but perhaps it has some other costs elsewhere, hard to detect.
|
|
It's also a key to citizenship and enfranchisement in society, to your ability to understand and take part in all the discourse that shapes your community and your country and your world.
|
|
As ever, the debate over enfranchisement was not only or even mostly philosophical; it was primarily political, as both parties tried to calculate their own potential share of the new voting pool.
|
|
The good: Florida restored voting rights to more than 22016 million people with felony records, which amounts to the biggest enfranchisement since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the women's suffrage movement.
|
|
Moreover, circumventing the referendum process to access state and city coffers reveals a troubling foundation under this supposed agent of re-enfranchisement, even if there are local employment standards for the construction project.
|
|
Credit for the largest enfranchisement since women's suffrage a century ago goes to a determined advocacy campaign, which built enough support that Amendment 4 easily cleared the 60 percent threshold needed for ratification.
|
|
Pankhurst made her argument that militarism—"deeds not words"—was a strategy whose roots lay in the "record books of man's enfranchisement," which inspired American suffragists to draw parallels with their country's founding revolution.
|
|
The law includes many reforms -- like automatic voter registration, felon re-enfranchisement, improved election security, and methods to make voting more convenient -- that all amount to one thing: modernizing our election system for everyone.
|
|
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and former President Barack Obama, who tell the story of America as a march toward justice, characterized by the enfranchisement of oppressed groups, presented at times almost as inevitable.
|
|
This is an important matter for the state GOP because implementing the felon enfranchisement law may have been enough to reverse the result of the 2018 Senate race and possibly the gubernatorial election as well.
|
|
But the bad news for Zaza Nation is that this year's enfranchisement of media and players — who, one assumes, will take the process more seriously — makes it unlikely Pachulia actually reaches the All-Star game.
|
|
If President Trump were to gain another percentage point among white working-class voters, for instance, that could be enough to overcome the combined effect of both new Puerto Rican residents and felon re-enfranchisement.
|
|
However, we must remember that leaseholders of blocks of flats can, in the majority of cases, exercise their right to collective enfranchisement under the provisions of the Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.
|
|
And it is past time for our country to acknowledge that when the 19th Amendment was ratified, many women still weren't able to cast a ballot because of Jim Crow laws that denied them full enfranchisement.
|
|
When Democrat Andy Beshear won Kentucky's gubernatorial race in early November, it was viewed in part as a win for ex-felon re-enfranchisement — Beshear had campaigned on restoring voting rights to an estimated 100,000 people.
|
|
Riyadh considers this population a threat to its stability and, as Salafism is a core pillar of the Saudi state, their inclusion into the governance structure and their civil and political enfranchisement is not a viable concept.
|
|
As an example, he called the conversation around allowing prisoners to vote "really interesting," although as a policy, he said the case for full enfranchisement is, for at least the time being, further than he's willing to go.
|
|
The abolition of enslavement posed one crisis, the expansion of enfranchisement, another; both efforts are works in progress, as persons of color, women, and others continue to struggle, despite setbacks, for their due place in the American polity.
|
|
The Florida ballot measure launched one of the largest enfranchisement efforts in modern U.S. history, with more than 1 million people potentially eligible to regain their right to vote in a state with a population of 21 million.
|
|
I have long supported efforts to empower communities of color by fighting for access to healthcare, making it easier and simpler to vote, and twice defended the historic re-enfranchisement of former felons before the Supreme Court of Virginia.
|
|
Though that law will not go into effect until March 2019, organizers of the re-enfranchisement effort were also central to the successful jury reform campaign; they now look forward to the possibilities ahead when they can vote, too.
|
|
His action was hailed as a victory for enfranchisement but prompted a backlash from Republicans, who accused the governor of overstepping his Constitutional authority as part of a political gambit to get more Democratic voters to the polls in November.
|
|
I wrote in solidarity with the many citizen organizations, along with the Catholic Church, that had mobilized to protect their right to democracy, seizing a window of enfranchisement in a flawed and chaotic electoral process after decades of authoritarian rule.
|
|
The popular images of the era are of women set loose from Victorian restrictions: the flapper dancing and smoking and rouging her knees, the suffragist glorying in her newfound enfranchisement, the New Woman entering government and the arts and the professions.
|
|
Although Jim Crow may be a thing of the past, election laws that require voter IDs, don't allow for criminal re-enfranchisement and ban same-day registration are all forms of suppression that mainly keeps people of color from exercising their constitutional right to vote.
|
|
Advocacy among some Palestinian intellectuals and their allies for enfranchisement in a single state, the so-called one-state solution, has not been endorsed by a single Palestinian faction and is a long way from drawing majority support in the West Bank and Gaza.
|
|
Influenced: Gustave de Molinari, Ludwig von Mises, Libertarians Harriet Taylor Mill 1807-1858 Main work: "The Enfranchisement of Women", 1851Known for: Though little was published under Taylor Mill's own name, her second husband, John Stuart Mill, readily admitted the influence she had on him and his work.
|
|
In an essay written in 2009 for the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank, he declared that he no longer believed that "freedom and democracy are compatible", putting some of the blame for growing statism on the rise of welfare dependency and the enfranchisement of women.
|
|
At a time when the era had been reduced to the D. W. Griffith fable of illiterate blacks conspiring with opportunistic whites, Du Bois wanted to assert the lasting value and significance of what had been achieved in the all too brief period of black political enfranchisement.
|
|
In a long evolution — through George Wallace and reaction to African American voter enfranchisement; the Reagan realignment; the politicization of the Southern evangelical church; Newt GingrichNewton (Newt) Leroy GingrichMORE's Contract with America; and the Tea Party revolt of 2010 — analysts saw the Republican Party becoming the party of the South.
|
|
When Clinton wore white to her nomination, many caught on that it was a nod to the white dresses suffragettes wore who fought for women's enfranchisement; the purple in her concession speech was to buttress her message of unity, and how important it will be for red and blue to come together.
|
|
Elections are enshrined in the DRC constitution and while the Independent National Elections Commission (CENI) has successfully managed elections in the past, the national elections scheduled for 2016 were not adequately resourced, and the challenges to enfranchisement and representative vote were not adequately communicated to the Congolese public, or to the international community.
|
|
The authors suggest that the end of slavery had a tremendous, lasting impact on white Southerners that's been passed down from generation to generation: For example, Key (1949), Du Bois (1935), and Foner (2011) (among others) have argued that the sudden enfranchisement of blacks was politically threatening to whites, who for centuries had enjoyed exclusive political power.
|
|
Personal convictions rarely accounted for a legislator's vote, and the politics of suffrage did not map evenly onto parties: the Republican minority, with its legacy of enfranchisement, promised the most reliable voting bloc in the legislature, but it was a Democratic governor, Albert Roberts, who called the special session and later announced his support for women's voting rights.
|
|
Someone proposes a more equitable world—the enfranchisement of working people, or of African-Americans, or of women, or marital rights for homosexuals—and then makes it endure by assuring those who oppose it that, while they may have lost the fight, they haven't lost their dignity, their autonomy, or their chance to adapt to the change without fearing the loss of all their agency.
|
|
Referencing research that extrapolated numbers based on previous enfranchisement efforts for people convicted of felonies in Florida, Meredith and Morse wrote for Vox: Had all ex-felons been eligible to vote in Florida in 24, we estimate that this would have generated about 24,0053 additional votes for Democrats and about 2005,230 additional votes for Republicans, with about an additional 2000,000 votes that could be cast on behalf of either party.
|
|
Referencing research that extrapolated numbers based on previous enfranchisement efforts for people convicted of felonies in Florida, Meredith and Morse wrote for Vox: Had all ex-felons been eligible to vote in Florida in 24, we estimate that this would have generated about 24,24 additional votes for Democrats and about 54,000 additional votes for Republicans, with about an additional 40,000 votes that could be cast on behalf of either party.
|
|
As Abrams put it, The specific methods by which the United States has excluded women, Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, and the LGBTQ community from property ownership, educational achievement, and political enfranchisement have differed; so, too, have the most successful methods of fighting for inclusion — hence the need for a politics that respects and reflects the complicated nature of these identities and the ways in which they intersect.
|
|