Problems in American Democracy

by Thames Williamson

QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT

1. Distinguish between citizenship and the suffrage.

2. Why is the suffrage important in a representative democracy?

3. Discuss the suffrage in colonial times.

4. What was the probable extent of the suffrage in 1789?

5. What is the doctrine of natural rights?

6. How was this doctrine applied to the question of the suffrage?

7. Why was the suffrage in the eastern states widened in the nineteenth century?

8. Discuss the suffrage in the new West.

9. Describe the enfranchisement of the Negro.