Election Laws And Electoral Practices In Virginia 1867 1902

Author : John Dinan
Publisher : Oxford Commentaries on the Sta
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199355723

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The Virginia State Constitution by John Dinan Pdf

The Virginia State Constitution examines constitutional amendments, court decisions, attorney general opinions, and legislative deliberations bearing on the development and interpretation of the Virginia Constitution. The book contains a detailed history of the Virginia Constitution, with particular attention to key moments in the state's constitutional development, from the 1776 Constitution through the current 1971 Constitution. The book also includes a provision-by-provision commentary on the evolution and meaning of each section of the Virginia Constitution. The second edition brings this material up to date through mid-2013 and analyzes a number of constitutional developments with important implications for governance. Among the recent amendments covered in this volume is an amendment barring recognition of same-sex marriages and civil unions, and an amendment that undertook a major revision of the provision limiting the eminent domain power. The book examines several recent state court decisions of note, including the state supreme court's first interpretation of the provision guaranteeing "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" and various court decisions limiting the power to levy taxes. The book also analyzes recent attorney general opinions with significant implications for legislative appropriations to non-profit groups, along with various other legislative initiatives. The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States is an important series that reflects a renewed international interest in constitutional history and provides expert insight into each of the 50 state constitutions. Each volume in this innovative series contains a historical overview of the state's constitutional development, a section-by-section analysis of its current constitution, and a comprehensive guide to further research. Under the expert editorship of Professor G. Alan Tarr, Director of the Center on State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University, this series provides essential reference tools for understanding state constitutional law. Books in the series can be purchased individually or as part of a complete set, giving readers unmatched access to these important political documents.

Author : Brent Tarter
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813943213

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Gerrymanders by Brent Tarter Pdf

Many are aware that gerrymandering exists and suspect it plays a role in our elections, but its history goes far deeper, and its impacts are far greater, than most realize. In his latest book, Brent Tarter focuses on Virginia’s long history of gerrymandering to uncover its immense influence on the state’s politics and to provide perspective on how the practice impacts politics nationally. Offering the first in-depth historical study of gerrymanders in Virginia, Tarter exposes practices going back to nineteenth century and colonial times and explains how they protected land owners’ and slave owners’ interests. The consequences of redistricting and reapportionment in modern Virginia—in effect giving a partisan minority the upper hand in all public policy decisions—become much clearer in light of this history. Where the discussion of gerrymandering has typically emphasized political parties’ control of Congress, Tarter focuses on the state legislatures that determine congressional district lines and, in most states, even those of their own districts. On the eve of the 2021 session of the General Assembly, which will redraw district lines for Virginia’s state Senate and House of Delegates, as well as for the U.S. House of Representatives, Tarter’s book provides an eye-opening investigation of gerrymandering and its pervasive effect on our local, state, and national politics and government.

Author : David Lincove
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313065019

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Reconstruction in the United States by David Lincove Pdf

The only comprehensive bibliography on Reconstruction, this book provides the definitive guide to literature published from 1877 to 1998. In over 2,900 entries, the work covers a broad range of topics including politics, agriculture, labor, religion, education, race relations, law, family, gender studies, and local history. It encompasses the years of the Civil War through the conclusion of the 1876 election and the end of the federal government's official role in reforming the postwar South and protecting the rights of Black citizens. In detailed annotations, the book covers a range of literature from scholarly and popular studies to published memoirs, letters and documents, as well as reference sources and teaching tools. The issues of Reconstruction—civil rights, states' rights and federal-state relations, racism, nationalism, government aid to individuals—continue to be relevant today, and the literature on Reconstruction is large. This book provides a systematic and comprehensive bibliographic guide to that literature. It is organized by topics and geographical regions and states, thereby emphasizing the local diversity in the South. In addition to a variety of literature, it covers the relevant Supreme Court cases through 1883, provides full citations to federal acts and cases cited, and includes the texts of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. The book will be useful to scholars and students researching a wide range of topics in Southern history, constitutional history, and national politics in post Civil War United States.

Author : Brent Tarter
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820363349

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Constitutional History of Virginia by Brent Tarter Pdf

This is the only modern comprehensive constitutional history of any state, and as a history of Virgina, it is one of the oldest and most complex. Virginia’s state legislature is the Virginia General Assembly, which was established in July 1619, making it the oldest current lawmaking body in North America. Brent Tarter’s Constitutional History of Virginia covers over three hundred years of Virginia’s legislative policy, from colony to statehood, revealing its political and legal backstory. From the very beginning in 1606, when James I chartered the Virginia Company to establish a commercial outpost on the Atlantic coast of North America, through the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the fundamental constitutions of the colony and state of Virginia have evolved and changed as the demographic, economic, political, and cultural characteristics of Virginia changed. Elements of the colonial constitution influenced the character of the state’s first constitution in 1776, and changing relationships between the people and their government, as well as relationships between the state and federal governments, have influenced how the state’s constitution has evolved. Tarter explores that evolution and taps into its relevance to the people who have lived and still live in Virginia.

Author : Brent Tarter
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813938769

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A Saga of the New South by Brent Tarter Pdf

In the lead-up to the Civil War, Virginia, like other southern states, amassed a large public debt while striving to improve transportation infrastructure and stimulate economic development. A Saga of the New South delves into the largely untold story of the decades-long postwar controversies over the repayment of that debt. The result is a major reinterpretation of late-nineteenth-century Virginia political history. The post–Civil War public debt controversy in Virginia reshaped the state’s political landscape twice. First it created the conditions under which the Readjuster Party, a biracial coalition of radical reformers, seized control of the state government in 1879 and successfully refinanced the debt; then it gave rise to a counterrevolution that led the elitist Democratic Party to eighty years of dominance in the state's politics. Despite the Readjusters’ victory in refinancing the debt and their increased spending for the popular new system of free public schools, the debt controversy generated a long train of legal disputes—at least eighty-five cases reached the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, and twenty-nine reached the Supreme Court of the United States. Through an in-depth look at these political and legal contests, A Saga of the New South sheds new light on the many obstacles that reformers faced in Virginia and the South after the Civil War.

Author : Virginius Dabney
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0813934303

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Richmond by Virginius Dabney Pdf

This book chronicles the growth of this historic community over nearly four centuries from its founding to its most recent urban and suburban developments.

Author : Brent Tarter
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813934327

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The Grandees of Government by Brent Tarter Pdf

From the formation of the first institutions of representative government and the use of slavery in the seventeenth century through the American Revolution, the Civil War, the civil rights movement, and into the twenty-first century, Virginia’s history has been marked by obstacles to democratic change. In The Grandees of Government, Brent Tarter offers an extended commentary based in primary sources on how these undemocratic institutions and ideas arose, and how they were both perpetuated and challenged. Although much literature on American republicanism focuses on the writings of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, among others, Tarter reveals how their writings were in reality an expression of federalism, not of republican government. Within Virginia, Jefferson, Madison, and others such as John Taylor of Caroline and their contemporaries governed in ways that directly contradicted their statements about representative—and limited— government. Even the democratic rhetoric of the American Revolution worked surprisingly little immediate change in the political practices, institutions, and culture of Virginia. The counterrevolution of the 1880s culminated in the Constitution of 1902 that disfranchised the remainder of African Americans. Virginians who could vote reversed the democratic reforms embodied in the constitutions of 1851, 1864, and 1869, so that the antidemocratic Byrd organization could dominate Virginia’s public life for the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. Offering a thorough reevaluation of the interrelationship between the words and actions of Virginia’s political leaders, The Grandees of Government provides an entirely new interpretation of Virginia’s political history.

Author : Michael Perman
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860250

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Struggle for Mastery by Michael Perman Pdf

Around 1900, the southern states embarked on a series of political campaigns aimed at disfranchising large numbers of voters. By 1908, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia had succeeded in depriving virtually all African Americans, and a large number of lower-class whites, of the voting rights they had possessed since Reconstruction--rights they would not regain for over half a century. Struggle for Mastery is the most complete and systematic study to date of the history of disfranchisement in the South. After examining the origins and objectives of disfranchisement, Michael Perman traces the process as it unfolded state by state. Because he examines each state within its region-wide context, he is able to identify patterns and connections that have previously gone unnoticed. Broadening the context even further, Perman explores the federal government's seeming acquiescence in this development, the relationship between disfranchisement and segregation, and the political system that emerged after the decimation of the South's electorate. The result is an insightful and persuasive interpretation of this highly significant, yet generally misunderstood, episode in U.S. history.

Author : Philip Alexander Bruce,William Glover Stanard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Virginia
ISBN : UCAL:B3624024

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The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography by Philip Alexander Bruce,William Glover Stanard Pdf

Vols. 1-28, 30-31, 33-34 include the society's Proceedings... at its annual meeting... 1893-1923, 1926.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UOM:39015056080743

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082930184

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National Union Catalog by Anonim Pdf

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Author : Kermit L. Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024598406

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A Comprehensive Bibliography of American Constitutional and Legal History, 1896-1979 by Kermit L. Hall Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119278393

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Comprehensive Dissertation Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Xerox University Microfilms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UOM:39015065527353

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Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861-1972: History by Xerox University Microfilms Pdf

Author : Michael Carlton Tolley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0815308922

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State Constitutionalism in Maryland by Michael Carlton Tolley Pdf