Essays on Elections

Among all voters, the discussion on the need for photo ID has begun to gather pace, with ardent supporters for and against it. To this end, I assume that the change for voters to require a photo ID is a good one. This is large because most tests of tampering...

Throughout the history of the United States, problems of voting rights, especially the enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of different classes, have been challenged. Since the introduction of the Jim Crow Laws and other similar provisions, along with several other contested voting credentials, rules, and regulations that discourage voters from directly or...

Disobedience and its Purpose Disobedience is purposefully nonviolent because it is the failure to follow a series of laws or principles that are considered to be unfair in order to promote moral consistency. The fundamental contexts in which disobedience may be justified are the need to maintain spiritual dignity and the...

Following the murder of Abraham Lincoln The law-making branch tackled the duties of the nation s reconstruction. Because the Republicans managed Congress, they needed to preserve the power by improving the voters number in their stake. With the 14th amendment, slaves were finally allowed to vote (Dubois and Lynn 284)....