in Australia
bullet voting and
children and
compulsory
disenfranchisement and
Election Day and
felon disenfranchisement and
noncitizens and
for non-contestable elections
in off-year elections
perks for
preferential voting and
in presidential elections
in primary elections
proportional representation and
registration and
selling votes for
war powers
Warren, Earl
Warren Court
Washington, George
Washington Post
Washington v. Davis
Watergate
weighted voting
Weimar Republic
Wesberry v. Sanders
White, Byron
Whole Women’s Health Clinic v. Hellerstedt (2016)
Williams v. Rhodes
Wilson, Woodrow
World War II
Wyoming
Yad Vashem (Israeli Holocaust Museum)
Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer (1952)
About the Author
One of the nation’s foremost civil liberties lawyers, Burt Neuborne has participated in more than two hundred cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, where he challenged the constitutionality of the Vietnam War, pioneered the flag burning cases, and worked on the Pentagon Papers, among many other issues. He is former national legal director of the ACLU, founding legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice, and currently the Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties at NYU School of Law. Neuborne is the author of Madison’s Music (The New Press) and lives in New York.
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