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Every ten years political representation in the U.S.House of Representatives is redistributed (reapportioned) among the fifty states.The process began anew with the 2010 census, which is counting the nation's population as the basis for reapportionment.The decennial census has a history wrought with failures and inaccurate counts. In Vote Thieves, geographer Orlando J. Rodriguez shows how our current method of apportionment creates an incentive for illegal immigration and polarizes our political system. Historically it caused the end of the Federalist Party, bolstered slavery, disenfranchised African Americans after Reconstruction, fostered segregation in the South, denied voting rights to women, and disenfranchised voters in the presidential election of 2000. Since 1989, six congressional bills have attempted to change the population basis for apportionment; none passed. Currently under review in Congress, House Joint Resolution 53 would amend the Constitution to include only citizens in the apportionment base.The 2008 presidential platform of the Republican Party included a similar call to change the apportionment basis. This issue affects all U.S. residents-legal and illegal alike. Recent history has triggered a growing suspicion among Americans that their political system is flawed. Vote Thieves explains a singular flaw that voters suspect but cannot put in plain words, and gives them the information they need to petition for a more responsive political system.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Humanities History Regional & national history

• Plný název: Vote Thieves
• Podnázev: Illegal Immigration, Redistricting, and Presidential Elections
• Autor: Orlando Rodriguez
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 192
• EAN: 9781597976718
• ISBN: 1597976717
• ID: 05088348
• Nakladatelství: Potomac Books Inc
• Hmotnost: 386 g
• Rozměry: 230 × 150 × 20 mm
• Datum vydání: 28. February 2011

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