Autonomy Versus Equality: Voting Rights Rediscovered
59 Pages Posted: 17 Jun 2005
Abstract
Using empirical and other evidence, this paper examines the success of Shaw v. Reno and the Supreme Court's wrongful districiting cases in reducing the role of race in politics. Observing that the Court has shown an inability to distinguish between race as such and politics, the author argues that rather than reduce the role of race, more than a decade of the wrongful districting cases has simply reduced minority political autonomy under the stalking horse of color-blindness. The author argues that this autonomy ought not be so easily disposable because it is rooted in the Constitution and in the exercise of the franchise.
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Smith, Terry, Autonomy Versus Equality: Voting Rights Rediscovered. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=745304 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.745304
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