The Constitution of South Carolina: The struggle for political equalityUniv of South Carolina Press, 1986 - 444 من الصفحات Traces the evolution of voting rights in the Palmetto State from the Civil War through the present. |
المحتوى
Chapter 2 | 40 |
Voting Rights | 58 |
C | 113 |
D | 120 |
Chapter 4 | 157 |
Acts of 1957 1960 and 1964 | 193 |
The 1965 Voting Rights | 213 |
vii | 349 |
Epilogue to the Constitution of South | 378 |
Procedural and Jurisdictional Disputes | 402 |
Table of Cases | 416 |
| 424 | |
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