• The right of non-citizens to vote in the United States has historically been a contentious issue. Since 1997, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant...
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  • vote" principle. For many, the term universal suffrage assumes the exclusion of the young and non-citizens (among others). At the same time, some insist that...
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  • include poor European-American men ("universal manhood suffrage"), in a shift that began the move away from a society stratified by wealth, to one which...
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  • designed to thwart the objective of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, enacted in 1870 to protect the suffrage of freedmen. Democrats...
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