Sentence examples for equality in voting from inspiring English sources
Under its authority pursuant to Section 2 of the Fifteenth Amendment, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to achieve further racial equality in voting.
There is not, and could not be, except abstractly, a right of absolute equality in voting.
In his 34 years on the bench the Supreme Court moved far toward his views on applying the Bill of Rights to the states, on enforcing equality in voting districts, on protecting freedom of speech and press.
Equality in voting was possible only if each vote was formally independent of every other vote, and this suggested the need for strict secrecy.
Congress has compiled a huge record showing that gerrymandering, use of at-large voting in cities with a sizable black minority to eliminate the power of minority votes and other barriers to equality in voting justifies the clearance formula the court struck down as failing to meet "current needs".
Suffice to say, the laws passed by the town of Skokie were essentially the same as the laws passed in many towns, including Southern towns and including Chicago, to ban speech they hated, often including civil rights demonstrations for racial equality in schools, voting, etc.
That should involve not just equality before the law, in eligibility for office and in voting power, but also equality of material circumstances.
Elections since the rise of Donald Trump, including the midterms, have galvanized voters' attitudes toward racial and gender equality and opened a large divide in voting patterns between whites with and without college degrees.
The Detroit Free Press described Conyers as "an undisputed hero of the civil rights movement" and "a steadfast voice for social justice and equality". It recalled his crucial roles in voting rights, health care reform and the establishment of a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
July 14 , 1858Manchester, England June 14 , 1928London, England Emmeline Pankhurst, née Emmeline Goulden (born July 14 [see Researcher's Note], 1858, Manchester, England died June 14 , 1928 London) militant champion of woman suffrage whose 40-year campaign achieved complete success in the year of her death, when British women obtained full equality in the voting franchise.
