Format:
Online-Ressource (352 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107023000
Content:
This book examines fierce conflicts over apportionment and gerrymandering in the late nineteenth-century Midwest
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Injustices and Inequalities "The Politics of Apportionment, 1870-1888; "DISPROPORTIONATE INFLUENCE AND POWER"; "THE MOST DIFFICULT AND PROTRACTED JOB"; "THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS GERRYMANDERING SCHEME EVER PROPOSED"; 2 "One Irrevocable Duty "Democrats and Reapportionment, 1889-1893; REBUKING DISFRANCHISEMENT; "THE ORGANIC REPUBLICAN IDEA": OHIO AND IOWA, 1889-1890; "DISAPPORTIONMENT": INDIANA 1891; "THE GERRYMANDERING MACHINE": MICHIGAN, 1891
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"A MONUMENT OF UNFAIRNESS AND NERVE": WISCONSIN 1891"A GREAT DEAL OF CLOSE FIGURING": ILLINOIS 1891-1893; CONFIRMING A GERRYMANDER; 3 "The Time Has Come to Make a Precedent "Wisconsin, 1891-1892; "TO GET THE MATTER BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT"; "THE GREAT GERRYMANDER CASE"; "GERRYMANDER NO. 2"; "NO END OF TROUBLE"; 4 "Fought Out in the Courts" Michigan, 1891-1893; "INTENSE AND BIGOTED PARTISANSHIP"; "A REPUBLICAN CONSPIRACY"; "THE COURTS ALONE CAN SAVE THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE"; "THE COURT AND THE LEGISLATURE"; "A POLITICAL EMERGENCY"; "THE CHAINS ARE FASTENED ANEW"
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5 "Partisanship Has Run Riot" Indiana, 1892-1894"THE PRESENT GERRYMANDER SHOULD NOT BE ACQUIESCED IN"; "WHILE OUR SUPREME COURT IS YET REPUBLICAN"; "COMPLICATING THE CASE"; "A PARTY CAUCUS IS MORE RESPECTED THAN A SUPREME COURT"; 6 "An Ineradicable Vice" Wisconsin, 1893-1896; "SIMPLY PARTISAN AND ILLEGAL"; "A SIGHT FOR THE LEGISLATIVE GODS"; "THE IGNOMINIOUS END"; 7 "The Consequences of Their Own Folly" Indiana, 1894-1898; "GIVING THEM THE SAME DOSE THEY GAVE US"; "A CONDITION BORDERING ON ANARCHY"; "TO AVOID THE CONDITIONS OF CHAOS"; "A WEAPON SANCTIONED BY USAGE"
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8 "A State of Uncertainty" Illinois, 1893-1898"THE CELEBRATED GERRYMANDER CASES"; "ALL TORN UP HERE OVER APPORTIONMENT"; "TANNER'S GERRYMANDER"; 9" Our System of Popular Representative Government "From Chaos to Control; "NO ONE CAN TELL WHAT A COURT WILL DO"; "THE PEOPLE HAVE NO REMEDY"; "LITTLE CHANGE AND LITTLE TROUBLE"; "DEPARTING FROM THE PRINCIPLE UPON WHICH OUR GOVERNMENT IS FOUNDED"; A "MOCKERY" OF THE RIGHT TO VOTE; Appendix; Bibliography; Manuscripts; Newspapers; Indiana; Iowa; Michigan; Ohio; Wisconsin; Other; Court Cases; Public Documents; Other Primary Sources; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139779760
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107023000
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America : The Politics of Apportionment
Language:
English
Keywords:
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