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American Suffrage: From Property to Democracy, 1760-1860
By (Author) Chilton Williamson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
4th June 2019
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political structures: democracy
History of the Americas
Hardback
320
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Since Americans have long taken price in universal suffrage and the secret ballot as foundations of democracy, it is surprising that one of its growth and reform. Mr. Williamson, focusing on the period from the Revolution to the Civil War, provides a state-by-state analysis of the growth of suffrage in its relation to partisan politics, the intelle