When the letter betrays the spirit [electronic resource] : voting rights enforcement and African American participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama / Tyson D. King-Meadows.
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
c2011.
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When the Letter Betrays the Spirit: Voting Rights Enforcement and African American Participation From Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Introduction : congressional authority and voting rights enforcement
- Part I : A retrospective and prospective look at the Voting Rights Act
- Why discretion matters in voting rights enforcement
- Obama's inheritance : the Johnson framework, the VRA, and faith in federal power
- Part II. The challenge to congressional authority
- Misdirections : political theatre and the 2006 reauthorization of section 5
- Partisan spoils of office : a post-Shaw judicial philosophy of civic literacy
- Is "Bull Connor" dead? Contemporary public opinion on voting rights policy
- A battle of principals : Congress, the DOJ, and the George W. Bush Administration
- The macro-political context shaping enfranchisement
- Conclusion : regulating discretion and the challenge of post-racial politics.