Minority Groups In The United States

Nearly 100 years after the 15th amendment was ratified, vast disparities and blatant discrimination in voting process and practice were still pervasive, particularly in certain southern states like Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) was enacted by congress to address this enduring inequity. Section 5 of the VRA requires that states meeting criteria set out in section 4(b) of the act, must obtain federal “preclearance” before enacting any laws that affect voting. Section 4(b) provides the conditions for the preclearance requirement as state or jurisdictions where less than 50% of minorities were registered to vote in 1964.

Historically in America, voting has been a relatively discriminatory practice. It has limited and deprived many individuals of many diverse races, ethnicities, and walks of life from casting their votes to select the individual who they feel is most educated, and skilled to represent their interests. Not only has this been proven to be wrong by discriminating minority groups in voting, it also has proved to be a process, which minimizes the largest growing demographics in the country. Furthermore, with millennials growing to become more politically active, minority groups are becoming more politically involved than ever. Taking this into account an important question that is raised by the author William Eskridge in his book “Legislation and Statutory Interpretation” is “Would minorities be better off with more representatives who had to pay attention to their interests because they are a powerful and organized constituency, rather than with a few representatives of minority districts who specialize in protecting only their interests?” (Eskridge,Frickley,& Garrett, 2006, pp.55).

In the early years of the United States, voting laws were very strict and only a select few people were able to vote. In 1776, only people who owned land were permitted to vote. Most people in this category were white males over the age of 21. This continued for many decades: in 1790 the Naturalization Law passed. It explicitly stated that only “free white” immigrants can become naturalized citizens. This gave only free white people the right to vote- very little progress was being made.

In the United States everyone did not have the right to vote. The 2 groups of people that did not have the right to vote are women and slaves. I know this because in the text it said that "women and slaves cant vote". In the text it states that "women did not get the right to vote until (1920). The text also states that the slaves didn't get the right to vote until The 14th Amendment came out.It is important that everyone gets the right to vote because everyone should have a voice/choice in what they want.

Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there were many limitations to suffrage; like any other race than an white american male, wealth held with the utmost importance, gender (as in females), age limits because one wouldn’t be as educated. Since those acts and movements in the past, laws have changed, like how the Civil Rights act has reshaped and transformed restrictions preventing discrimination on race, any way of registration, practices, providing assistance in different languages, and to be monitored if there is a history of discrimination. Furthermore, the constitution decided the decisions go to state of whom they thought should vote, a premature example was in New Jersey 1776, acknowledged the franchise to, and I quote “all inhabitants”

In the world today it may seem as if there’s no hindrance from voting, as long as someone is a naturalized citizen or a member of the U.S. Army. However, the voting world has not always been such a perfect, crystal clear topic or process; there used to be several blockades before someone could even vote when the country was young. Not even all white men had the right to vote, but getting their suffrage was a surprisingly easier climb than anyone else. Land ownership and Protestant faith was what a white man over the age of twenty one needed to vote. Slowly that requirement grew more complicated, as states were allowed to determine what a citizen needed in order to vote. States held various requirements, eventually evaporating for the white man between 1776 and 1856 when North Carolina removed property ownership from their requirements to vote. That was only the rise to being able to vote without restraint, only needing citizenship; not the right to vote for everyone.

Voting in America has developed throughout history. Originally, the Constitution did not specifically define who had the right to vote until the 14th and 15th Amendment in which specified, “the right of citizens of the United States to vote.” The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United states,” including all African Americans. It also refuses to “deny to any person within its jurisdiction on the equal

On May 17 1954 the United States Supreme Court came to a decision that had immediate results on the lives of two groups of American citizens who from the early days of the republic were characterized, polarized and then segregated by their physical, cultural and religious differences. Historic experiences have frequently characterized these groups into clear racial and social being. Both groups learned to come up with specific assumptions about the value of law and justice in relationship to their assigned place in society. These assumptions created difficulties in both political and social advances by supposed minority groups, people of African descent, an amended version of the American Constitution eventually asserted "No State shall make

Ethnic minorities are not the only ones who possess culture. Whiteness can be very hard to see in the U.S. culture (Blumenfeld, A., 2013, p.77). There is a white culture and white culture practices in the U.S. An example of culture practices is our government, which was founded, created, and mostly governed by prominent, educated white men. The American English language is also a frequent cultural practice. Beauty is part of the white culture, which is based on white skinned, thinness, long blonde hair and blue eyes. It seems to me that most of the educational books and library readings in elementary, junior high, high school, community colleges, and universities are part of white culture as most of them are written by white men and

The 15th amendment states that “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude” (Bashara). These words are not complicated, and we should be able to follow and understand them, yet over the course of time, we have put these legal words aside. While we may have made significant leaps in giving everyone the right to vote, there are still many factors that affect minorities during election periods- and that may end up eliminating their votes. It is clear that some counties and cities give the majority of people an unfair advantage when it comes to voting and that minorities, or people living in poverty,

In novel “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, he mentions the animals in the farm they all have the vision of freedom after Old Major’s prediction. They rebilled against the farmers and after their victory they tasted the revolution. The farm was renamed “Animal Farm” and made the constitution of the manor – “the seven commandments.” Soon there is a split on the revolution between the pigs, Snowball was declared as an enemies of the revolution. Since then Napoleon and Squealer obtained the leadership of the farm, immediately they have more power and more preferential treatment, they gradually moved away from other animals, and eventually become exploiters for exactly the same as humans, the original ideals of animal farm name is also be abandoned. One theme of animal farm is that we need to have a clever mind to see through unfair trick, before it is too late.

The Voting Rights Act 42 U.S.C. §§ 1973 et seq., decision is important regarding the laws governing voting rights and their relationship to minority voters. Its implication and effects however does not end within the legal realms and dimensions but continues through to society, culture, and human rights. The Voting Rights Act initially established in 1965 under Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration protected “racial minorities” from biased voting practices. It was a huge stride in the civil rights movement and a victory over harmful, archaic, and biased voting practices and traditions.

All human beings are entitled to equality and justice through our legal system and the state must accommodate to the rights of the minority groups. Some minority rights seem to conflict with liberal rights, for an example forcing women to stay home. (Freedman, 30 October 2017). In this essay, I will argue that the state should not endorse rights that infringes with the equality of the rights of a minority, therefore inhibiting the state’s ability to treat all of its citizens with equal concern and respect. Bill 62 and African Americans are two examples of the majority not being tolerant of the minorities rights. Achieving equality for all citizens in a society requires granting special rights to minorities in a liberal state. Liberal

As a result of state and local discriminatory practices, the federal role in elections has gradually increased. Amendments to the Constitution and enacted legislation, such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, have helped to increase the number of eligible voters. Furthermore, the United States Constitution set forth voting rights that cannot be abridged on account of race, color, previous condition of servitude, sex, or age for those above 18. However, the guidelines outlined in the constitution do not account for

The 15th amendment ratified in 1870 insured that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of