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What did the voting Rights Act of 1965 say?
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. This “act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution” was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified.
What does the original Constitution say about voting rights?
Several constitutional amendments (the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-sixth specifically) require that voting rights of U.S. citizens cannot be abridged on account of race, color, previous condition of servitude, sex, or age (18 and older); the constitution as originally written did not establish any such rights …
Is the United States of America a sovereign nation?
Yes, that is exactly how the United States came into existence. Each state is a sovereign entity and the people in each voted to give up some of that sovereignty to the Federal government in exchange for certain rights and privledges enumerated in the constitution.
What happens to a nation’s sovereignty when it surrenders?
Scott Mauldin’s answer is a good one. It can also happen when a nation surrenders to another in a really big war. Germany’s unconditional surrender to the Allies effectively handed over sovereignty to them, and the Allies governed it directly until they had established the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.
How do you elicit the voters’ opinions about the candidates?
The first step is to elicit the voters’ opinions about the candidates. Suppose that you ask each voter to rank the 4 candidates from best to worst (not allowing ties). The following table summarizes the voters’ rankings of the candidates in this hypothetical election scenario.
What if there are only two candidates to choose from?
If there were only two candidates to choose from, there is a very straightforward answer: The winner should be the candidate or alternative that is supported by more than 50 percent of the voters (cf. the discussion below about May’s Theorem in Section 4.2).