Poitical Science: the US Political System

IMAN ASRI

21/10/2020

L1 S1 Poitical Science: the US Political System

Homework :

Q&A

1. What vision did the founding fathers have for America at the end of the 18th century?
2. Which citizens had the right to vote in early America? Which did not? Why?
3. How did the right to vote extend to more citizens over time?
4. Are voting rights an issue in the 2020 presidential election? Why?

1)   The vision that had the founding fathers at the end of the 18th century was a concept of union of American nationhood, was embedded deeply enough in parts of the North that union soldiers were prepered to die fot that principle. We can mention the fundamental parts of the American constitution created by the founding fathers that says: “All men are creted equal” and “that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights” such as life, libery and the pursuit of happiness. The founding fathers wanted that America be a place of the free where everybody was cretated equal.

2)   In early history of the US some states allowed only white male adult proprerty owners to vote, while others either did not specify race, or specifically protected the rights of men of any race to vote.

• Free slavers could vote in four states.  
• Women were longely prohibited from voting, as were men without property.
• Non – white Americans could also vote in these jurisdictions provided they could meet the property requirement.

3)  During the right voting history timeline we can notice that in:

1789: The Constitution of the United States grants the states the power to set voting requirements. Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying white males.

1790: The Naturalization Act of 1790 allows free white persons born outside of the United States to become citizens.

1792–1838: Free black males lose the right to vote in Pennsylvania and in New Jersey.

1792–1856: Abolition of property qualifications for white men, from 1792 (Kentucky) to 1856 (North Carolina).

1868: Citizenship is guaranteed to all male persons born or naturalized in the United States by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, setting the stage for future expansions to voting rights.

1870: The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents states from denying the right to vote on grounds of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".

1887: Citizenship is granted to Native Americans making eligible to vote.

1920: Women are guaranteed the right to vote by the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In practice, the same restrictions that hindered the ability of non-white men to vote now also applied to non-white women.

1924: All Native Americans are granted citizenship and the right to vote through the Indian Citizenship Act, regardless of tribal affiliation.

1943: Chinese immigrants given the right to citizenship and the right to vote by the Magnuson Act.

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