1. Williamson, Readings in American Democracy, chapter xxxiii.
Or all of the following:
2. Beard, American Citizenship, chapter vi.
3. Cleveland, Organized Democracy, chapters x and xii.
4. Porter, A History of Suffrage in the United States, chapter i.
5. Seymour, How the World Votes, vol. i, chapters i and ii.
QUESTIONS ON THE REQUIRED READINGS
1. What is the relation of political to civil liberty? (Beard, pages 64-65.)
2. Name some groups of people who were excluded from the suffrage in colonial times. (Porter, page 5.)
3. What were some of the early arguments for giving propertyless men the vote? (Beard, pages 66-67.)