By Bernard Grofman
This e-book is the main up to date therapy of vote casting rights legislation and the various controversies surrounding minority illustration. Written via authors with first-hand adventure within the case legislation, the booklet info the evolution of the legislation and precedent from 1965 ahead. The authors clarify the elemental good judgment underlying the most important judgements, introduce the reader to the tactics for developing criteria of illustration and measuring discrimination, and speak about the key issues of contemporary rivalry. within the concluding bankruptcy, the authors handle the consequences of the hot advancements in balloting rights legislation for the way forward for illustration in the United States.
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In any case, according to the plurality, proof of "racially discriminatory motivation is a necessary ingredient of a Fifteenth Amendment violation" (p. 62). 36 Minority Representation and Voting Equality As for the statutory challenge, the plurality contended that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act "was intended to have an effect no different from that of the Fifteenth Amendment itself" and therefore "adds nothing to the appellees' Fifteenth Amendment claim" (p. 61). There was no clear majority on the issue of whether Section 2 required proof of discriminatory purpose.
After lengthy and sometimes acrimonious debate in both chambers, revisions to the act were passed by Congress on June 23, 1982, and signed by President Ronald W. Reagan on June 29. Section 2 now reads: (a) No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision in a manner which results in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color, or in contravention of the guarantees set forth in section 4(f)(2).
105), thought that proof of discriminatory intent was not required to demonstrate Fifteenth Amendment unconstitutionality. Justices Blackmun, Stevens, and White, in their separate opinions, did not discuss the Section 2 question. However, "because six Justices agreed that the scope of section 2 was the same as that of the fifteenth amendment, the lower courts generally considered themselves bound by the Stewart plurality's ruling that section 2 requires proof of discriminatory purpose" (Parker, 1983, p.
