Problems in American Democracy

by Thames Williamson

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1. Civil rights guaranteed by the constitution of your state.

2. History of woman suffrage in your state.

3. Citizenship as a prerequisite for voting in your state.

4. Present restrictions on the right to vote in your state.

5. List the groups or classes of people in your community who are not allowed to vote. What is the proportion of these classes to the total population of the community? What per cent of these excluded classes are aliens? What is the basis for exclusion in each case? Would you favor the extension of the vote to any of these groups? Explain.

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6. Colonial suffrage. (McKinley, The Suffrage Franchise in the Thirteen English Colonies in America; Cleveland, Organized Democracy, chapter x.)

7. Dorr's Rebellion. (Consult any standard text on American history or an encyclopedia.)

8. Suffrage and the frontier. (Seymour, How the World Votes, vol. i, chapter xi.)