Description: When the Letter Betrays the Spirit : Voting Rights Enforcement and African American Participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama, Paperback by King-meadows, Tyson D., ISBN 073914913X, ISBN-13 9780739149133, Brand New, Free shipping in the US When the Letter Betrays the Spirit examines the wide latitude provided to the executive branch and to the Supreme Court by the text of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Drawing from government enforcement data, legislative history, Supreme Court rulings, the 2006 reauthorization debate on the VRA, and from the 2007 scandal involving the firing of . attorneys under the Bush Administration, th examines when, why, and how executive and judicial discretion facilitates violation of voting rights. Connecting Johnson to Obama, th outlines why the executive-centered model of voting rights enforcement relegates Congress to the sidelines, and outlines why a Congress-centered approach provides the best protection against the effects of the law enforcement axiom: the law is neither self-executing nor self-interpreting. Th also examines 2008 survey results about public support for a Jim Crow-era election reform policy that would require voters to read a passage of the Constitution. Describing the civic literacy dimensions of voting rights law from Shaw v. Reno (1993) to Northwest Austin Utility v. Holder (2009), th highlights the complicated nature of the post-racial rhetoric surrounding the 2008 election cycle and surrounding the upcoming post-2010 census redistricting cycles.
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Book Title: When the Letter Betrays the Spirit : Voting Rights Enforcement an
Number of Pages: 374 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: When the Letter Betrays the Spirit : Voting Rights Enforcement and African American Participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Subject: United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights, American Government / General, United States / General, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2011
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Tyson D. King-Meadows
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
