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Democracy for All
Ronald Hayduk
其他書名
Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United States
出版Routledge, 2006
主題Political Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Civil RightsPolitical Science / Political Process / Campaigns & ElectionsPolitical Science / Public Policy / GeneralPolitical Science / American Government / GeneralSocial Science / Emigration & Immigration
ISBN04159507249780415950725
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vz_28rFmQgIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋First published in 2006. Voting is for citizens only, right? Not exactly. It is not widely known that immigrants, or noncitizens, currently vote in local elections in over a half dozen cities and towns in the U.S.; nor that campaigns to expand the franchise to noncitizens have been launched in at least a dozen other jurisdictions from coast to coast over the past decade. These practices have their roots in another little-known fact: for most of the country's history - from the founding until the 1920s - noncitizens voted in forty states and federal territories in local, state, and even federal elections, and also held.