PPT-Disenfranchisement
Author : karlyn-bohler | Published Date : 2016-10-11
is the revocation of the right of suffrage of a person or group of people or through practices prevention of a person exercising the right to vote Disfranchisement
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Disenfranchisement: Transcript
is the revocation of the right of suffrage of a person or group of people or through practices prevention of a person exercising the right to vote Disfranchisement may be accomplished explicitly by law or implicitly through requirements applied in a discriminatory fashion intimidation or by placing unreasonable requirements on voters for registration or voting. brPage 2br Permanent disenfranchisement for a ll people with felony convictions unless government approves individual rights restoration Iow a Florida Kentucky Virginia Permanent disenfranchisement for at leas t some people with criminal convictions The disenfranchised population is therefore compri sed of the active prison parole felony probation and convicted felony jail populations This practice is more restrictive than states such as Maine wh ich does not disenfranchise felons and Illinois brPage 1br Felony Voting Rights and the Disenfranchisement of African Americans Christopher Uggen Jeff Manza and Angela Behrens Imagining Justice brPage 2br brPage 3br brPage 4 33 No 2006 79 Lifetime Felony Disenfranchisement in Florida Texas and Iowa Symbolic and Instrumental Law Christie Sennott and John F Galliher Confused Constitutional History Racism and Southern Comfort he dis inc ion be ween ins rumen al and symboli Professor Jacqueline Hodgson. School of Law, . University of Warwick, UK. Systemic,. Psychological and Judicial Issues in Imprisonment. Trudeau Foundation; Les . Entretiens. Jacques Cartier. Lyon, . www.restorethevotemn.org. What is Disenfranchisement?. . Felon . disenfranchisement is the removal of voting rights from those who have been convicted of . a . felony. . A felony is any crime that carries a sentence of one year or greater. . Take out a sheet of paper. Number it 1-10. Discrimination and Disenfranchisement . The Life of an African American. Terms. Discrimination = . Acting upon prejudices towards an individual based on his/her membership in a certain category of people.. 2 " &