You have no constitutional right to vote. Such a bald statement undoubtedly will come as a surprise to some readers, who may have thought that voting is pretty fundamental to a democracy. And ...

You have no right to vote The Constitution doesn't guarantee it, the Republicans know it, and real democratic values in our country are under assault. By Garrett Epps.

If you're looking for the right to vote, you won't find it in the United States Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Two of the most important cases at the Supreme Court this year address voting ...

If you’re looking for the right to vote, you won’t find it in the United States Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Two of the most important cases at the Supreme Court this year address ...

But that still didn’t recognize a right to vote – only the right of equal treatment. Similarly, the 19th Amendment , now 100 years old, banned voting discrimination on the basis of sex, but ...

Voting. No, You Don't Have an Obligation to Vote Once you start dissecting the please-vote platitudes, it quickly becomes evident that you should feel no guilt about skipping the polls.

There is no guaranteed right to vote in the U.S. Constitution. Instead, constitutional amendments related to voting (15 th, 19 th, 24 th, 26 th) frame the issue in the negative: a citizen’s right to ...

Today, women being able to vote is a given. A no-brainer. A natural, non-negotiable insurance of a Constitution designed to provide equality for all people. But before the 19th Amendment was ...

The right to vote helps keep our democracy inclusive and fair, and resident voting is the next logical step toward creating a truly universal franchise. It is what America’s past and future as ...

As the suffragist movement gained momentum, women mobilized to oppose the 19th Amendment. The anti-suffragists became a nationwide force that would influence later generations of conservative women.

But it was the ballot signature verification measure’s majority opinion — which stated there is no right to vote enshrined in the Kansas Constitution’s Bill of Rights — that drew fiery ...