HISTORY 345 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Lyndon B. Johnson, Voting Rights Act Of 1965

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Thompson, how prisons change the balance of power in america: http://www. theatlantic. com/national/archive/2013/10/how-prisons-change-the-balance-of-power-in-ameri ca/280341/ The 14th amendment, when combined with the war on crime, has paradoxically disenfranchised vast swaths of the population and given the rural, white areas surrounding the prisons unforeseen political power. The vast majority locked up are the nations" poorest, most mentally ill, and least-educated citizens. African americans were given the right to vote, but white politicians decided to being a massive war on crime that would undercut myriad gains of the civil rights movement. Congress added so-called section 2 to the 14th amendment. Denied the vote to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the us would have its representation downsized in proportion to the number of individuals disenfranchised. Americans with new zeal and charging them with crimes that had never been on the books before. Southern whites profited from these new laws politically as well as economically.

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