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When at Times the Mob Is Swayed

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by Burt Neuborne


  in Australia

  bullet voting and

  children and

  compulsory

  disenfranchisement and

  Election Day and

  felon disenfranchisement and

  noncitizens and

  for non-contestable elections

  in off-year elections

  perks for

  preferential voting and

  in presidential elections

  in primary elections

  proportional representation and

  registration and

  selling votes for

  Voting Rights Act (1965)

  war powers

  Warren, Earl

  Warren Court

  Washington, George

  Washington Post

  Washington v. Davis

  Watergate

  weighted voting

  Weimar Republic

  Wesberry v. Sanders

  White, Byron

  Whole Women’s Health Clinic v. Hellerstedt (2016)

  Williams v. Rhodes

  Wilson, Woodrow

  World War II

  Wyoming

  xenophobia

  Yad Vashem (Israeli Holocaust Museum)

  Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer (1952)

  About the Author

  One of the nation’s foremost civil liberties lawyers, Burt Neuborne has participated in more than two hundred cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, where he challenged the constitutionality of the Vietnam War, pioneered the flag burning cases, and worked on the Pentagon Papers, among many other issues. He is former national legal director of the ACLU, founding legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice, and currently the Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties at NYU School of Law. Neuborne is the author of Madison’s Music (The New Press) and lives in New York.

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  © 2019 by Burt Neuborne

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  Composition by dix!

  This book was set in Electra LT Std

  Printed in the United States of America

  2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1

 

 

 


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