Your Weekly Constitutional
Your Weekly Constitutional
Stewart Harris
Voting Rights
1 hour 5 minutes Posted May 23, 2015 at 12:51 am.
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The United States Constitution creates what legal scholars typically call a "majoritarian" system of government. That is, the majority of voters typically controls the decisions made by the government.
But the Constitution leaves one big issue largely unaddressed: who gets to vote?
Professor Hank Chambers of the University of Richmond's law school helps us sort it all out.