Join Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, to examine the history of voting rights in America. Where in the Constitution are we given the right to vote? How was this right added through the amendment process and what actions have been taken to ensure voter equity?
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Dive into the first half of our Voting Rights in America Scholar Exchange! (stop video at 28:05)
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1. What does the 15th Amendment say?
2. Why did the 15th Amendment have a "gap" that made its protection of voting rights weak?
3. What types of voter disenfranchisement did it allow?
Tackle the second half of our Voting Rights in America Scholar Exchange! (start at 27:56)
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Discuss how property ownership has influenced voting rights in the United States. What role did the presidency of Andrew Jackson play in this?
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(Review) Supreme Court Cases - Matching Pairs
(Review) Voting Right Policies - Collaborate Board
Create and insert an NCC Quizlet here on Voting Rights cases covered in this video.
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Is there a single amendment or policy that gives U.S. citizens the right to vote?
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False
Who gains suffrage under the 19th Amendment?
Young people (18 years of age)
African Americans
Native Americans
Women
Which change did NOT make the Constitution "more embracive"? In other words, which of the following amendments did not expand the number of U.S. citizens who have suffrage?
15th Amendment
17th Amendment
19th Amendment
23rd Amendment
24th Amendment
26th Amendment
How did Article I and Article II provisions of the Constitution address and democratize voting?
Gave state legislatures power over the time and setting of elections
Empowered state legislatures to elect senators
Require state legislatures to elect national representatives to the House of Representatives with same voter qualifications as in elections to the states' lower house.
All of the above
Which policy did NOT help to finally end the voter disenfranchisement "gaps" in the 15th Amendment?
16th Amendment
24th Amendment
Voting Right Act of 1965
Which words do NOT describe the right to vote according to the Minor v. Happersett (1875) Supreme Court ruling?
Civil right
Common law
Uniform right
Political issue
Portable right
Which of the following did NOT happen to the 14th Amendment in the 1960s?
Extended to cover voting rights as fundamental and "preservative of all other rights"
Used to strike down prior legislation regarding voting rights
Used in a manner inconsistent with the original understanding of the Constitution
Struck down in court for not making voting rights completely portable.
Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 qualifications of a "political question"?
Court risks embarrassing other branches if it steps in while they work it out themselves
Associated with a specific "political right" outlined in the 17th Amendment
Textually committed by the constitution to be decided by another branch
Not susceptible to easily administrable judicial standards
Which one of the following redistricting outcomes did North Carolina fail to provide, leading to the Shaw v. Reno case?
"Pretty" districts
Equal population
Minority representation in districts
Incumbent re-election
Which of the following statements about the landmark case Shelby County v. Holder (2013) is TRUE?
Former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed with the ruling in the Shelby County v. Holder.
Congress did not perform research to find out if pre-clearance requirements of the Voting Rights Act were still necessary.
If a state has pre-clearance requirements, this means that state must get national approval from the Department of Justice before they change their voting laws
The pre-clearance requirements of the Voting Rights Act were struck down because they denied Northern states "equal sovereignty" and were outdated.
Which of the following definitions is false?
Gerrymandering - when legislators draw districts in specific ways (“squiggly”) to ensure the election of an incumbent
Discriminatory policy - (according to the Crawford case) a policy in which both the intent and effect are discriminatory
Reapportionment - the process of determining the number of representatives to which each state is entitled in the U.S. House of Representatives based on the decennial census
Malapportionment - when districts are perfectly drawn, giving (for example) rural areas more voting power per person than urban areas
Redistricting - the process of revising the geographic boundaries of areas from which people elect representatives to the U.S. House of Representatives, a state legislature, a county or city council, a school board, etc.
Select all of the Supreme Court cases that are correctly paired with their topics.
Ohio Secretary of State Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute (2018) - purge of voting rolls to make past registration void after inactivity
Ohio Secretary of State Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute (2018) - purge of voting rolls to make past registration void after inactivity
Baker v. Carr (1962) - Reapportionment under the 24th Amendment's "equal protection" clause
Crawford v. Marion County (2008) - Voter ID laws and discrimination
Reynolds v. Sims (1964) - "Republican form of government"; one person, one vote
Let's try this again: Is there a single amendment or policy that gives U.S. citizens the right to vote?