Ballot access

O’Connor, named “The Charter”, sent to the British Government several times and for the first time in July 1839. The letter had over a million signatures and included the six main aims of the movement, principally: all men had the right to vote, secret ballot to protect the elector, no property qualification for Members of Parliament, etc. These aims weren’t initially accepted by the government leading to radical actions, like protests, pamphlets and petitions. A pioneer of radical journalism…

Ferguson, a Supreme Court case, coined the phrase “separate but equal” as a way to justify segregation in public schools (Greenson). However, none of the schools were even close to being “equal”; the schools were funded by the whites so they had limited access to adequate classrooms supplies and teachers. Thurgood Marshall, an activist at the time, was the lawyer for Oliver Brown and his third-grade daughter, Linda, who had to walk six blocks just to get to the bus stop to go to school, when a…

Political campaigns stand as one of the staples of a democratic system of government, giving the citizenry access to the politicians who could represent them on a local, state, or national level. In america, every election is different with varying rules, ballot structures, level of media coverage, and participating constituents. Currently, the U.S. 2016 presidential campaign is in full force and quickly approaching the national conventions, which will finally declare who the Republican and…

Throughout this class we have paid a significant amount attention and time on how sexual coercion altered women’s lives, socially, economically and politically. Within this paper I will be digging deeper, to examine how sexual coercion intersected with the culture of domesticity to structure the power for both African American women and men. More specifically, I will break down the political, social, economic citizenship implications that can be made towards black women and men, discussing how…

Imagine you have been physically ill for some time and you have been put through tests. Poked and prodded several times, given blood sample after blood sample because the doctors have to run through different tests trying to figure out what is wrong with you. Finally, the doctors call you in to their office to sit you down and explain what is going on with your health. The diagnosis is grim and basically the doctors tell you that you have cancer or some other life threatening disease that is…

Life in this period has been described as “years of suffering and deprivation, as that “bleak age” in which the “evils of the Industrial Revolution” made themselves manifest”. However, this cold and unjust period gradually came to an end with the intervention of the government and implementation of new legislations that gave workers rights and privileges in their workplaces. The Coal Mines Act of 1842, for example, was passed to ensure that in coal mines “no female was to be employed…

The Electoral College is an integral part of the current election process of the United States. Created during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the Founding Fathers developed the establishment of Electors through debate of the Virginia Plan which proposed that Congress should elect the President. However, concerns of the President being controlled by Congress and fears over a small group of individuals being able to dictate who would hold office, presented the need to change the plan.…

Lynching affected New South Capitalism in the following ways: race, gender, and class. Lynching was able to do this because it was fully ingrained within the south’s socioeconomic system. Lynching affected race and could be seen through who was lynched. Normally African Americans were lynched because whites were prejudiced against them and saw them as a threat to white man’s progress. Also, white men lynched African Americans in order to protect their “ladies.” Lynching affected the class system…

millions of Americans from getting their hands on it. However, there are currently four states that have completely legalized the use of marijuana for recreational purposes; Alaska, Colorado, Washington, and Oregon. In addition, on the most recent 2016 ballot from November eighth, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, and California have legalized recreational use of marijuana while Montana, North Dakota, Arkansas and Florida passed it for medical use only. The push for legal marijuana in all states has…

country through a military coup in 1973 (10). He established a new political party, the National Revolutionary Movement for Development, which was to be the only political party allowed in Rwanda, and for several elections, he was the only name on the ballot. This party “institutionalized ethnic discrimination through a policy known as ‘establishing ethnic and regional balance,’ whereby a substantial part of the country’s political and social life became subject to quotas established according…