Resources
The following is our recommended list of Resources. Our list compiles select writings by leading academics, organizers, journalists, and litigators on topics relevant to the Right to Vote Initiative, including right-to-vote amendment language and the history of the right to vote and race. We also feature webinars and other up-to-date resources.
The Right-To-Vote Amendment Is Worth At Least One Candle: A Reply To Heather Gerken Election L. Blog, (Feb. 25, 2015, 9:38 PM)
Professor Joshua Douglas defends the right-to-vote amendment:
Open Link“We are likely to see the biggest effects of a federal amendment where we least expect it: in state courts.”
Is The Right To Vote Really Fundamental? 18 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 143 (2008)
Professor Joshua Douglas asks:
Open Link“Is the constitutional right to vote a fundamental right? The answer, surprisingly, is ‘not always.’”
(Mis)Trusting States To Run Elections 92 Wash. Univ. L. Rev. 553 (2015)
Professor Joshua Douglas discusses “current Supreme Court doctrine that defers too readily to states’ voting systems.”
Open LinkThe Right To Vote Under State Constitutions 67 Vand. L. Rev. 89 (2014)
Professor Joshua Douglas provides “a first and comprehensive look at the right to vote in state constitutions.”
Open LinkThe Right To Vote Under Local Law 85 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2017)
Professor Joshua Douglas discusses the local right to vote:
Open Link“Courts should defer to local laws that expand the right to vote as a means of local democracy, but should not defer to restrictions on the right to vote because limiting who may vote harms the ideal of democratic inclusion.”