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This volume features differing views of past, present, and possible future roles for Aboriginal people in the Canadian political and electoral system. The studies address the issues facing Aboriginal people and the efforts to increase their involvement in the federal electoral system.

Robert Milen examines the development of Aboriginal political consciousness since the 1970s, with attention to recent constitutional and electoral initiatives and aspirations.

Augie Fleras study considers the New Zealand system of guaranteed representation for the Maori and suggests how Canada...

Forrest County, Mississippi, became a focal point of the civil rights movement when, in 1961, the United States Justice Department filed a lawsuit against its voting registrar Theron Lynd. While thirty percent of the county's residents were black, only twelve black persons were on its voting rolls. United States v. Lynd was the first trial that resulted in the conviction of a southern registrar for contempt of court. The case served as a model for other challenges to voter discrimination in the South, and was an important influence in shaping the Voting Rights Act of...

The tenets that corporations do not count as citizens, and that self-government functions best by reducing political inequality, were commonly heldup until the early years of the twentieth century, when Congress recognized the strength...

Winner of the Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government
A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction
A Slate Best Book of 2014

The inside story of the Supreme Court decisions that brought true democracy to the United States

As chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Earl Warren is most often remembered for landmark rulings in favor of desegregation and the rights of the accused. But Warren himself identified a lesser known group of cases-Baker v. Carr, Reynolds v. Sims, and their companions-as his...

Este libro del profesor Allan R. Brewer-Carías tiene por objeto estudiar las implicaciones constitucionales del anuncio formulado por el Presidente de la República de Venezuela en mayo de 2017, de convocar una Asamblea Nacional Constituyente, luego de que durante los 17 años de vigencia de la Constitución de 1999 la misma no llegó jamás a cumplirse cabalmente (Introducción); convocatoria que se ha hecho sin la necesaria participación del pueblo mediante referendo que es indispensable en todos los procesos de revisión...