Henry Goldman Female Suffrage

In Andrew Sullivan’s essay, “America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny,” he expresses his beliefs that our government is drifting away from the original goals that were embedded for a structural government. Now a days, we are leading towards a government that is construct with individuals in power have wealth while the common people still dwell with less. Sullivan clarifies his argument by introducing the idea that our government is not a democracy, it is more closely similar to an oligarchy. Due to the fact that our democracy is economically unequal, it is coming close to being destroyed by our past and by the rich who can purchase political influences. As common people in society, our voice is simply being diminished due to the fact that

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America is facing an all-time low in voter participation. Since 2014 the voting population has decreased by “thirty-six and four-tenths percent” (DelReal). Many theories explain the stigma of voting in America. According to the Wolfgang “the leading theory is: many minority voters are discriminated upon and do not believe their vote will count.” Many laws created infringe on the rights of Americans, however, when citizens do not vote the government seizes control on controversial issues , which in turn creates solutions that are less than satisfactory to the civilians.

No true words were spoke than those by Ms. Susan B. Anthony, “Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.” Those words are still true today. Even though Ms. Susan B. Anthony, Ms. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other activists worked hard to get equal rights for women to allow them the right to have a say in how our government is run there are still places in the world where women and even some men aren’t allowed to vote. Some of those places may actually be surprising, others maybe not so much. Even still some of the trials these women went through to end women’s suffrage and the lack of political equality is worth taking a look at even ninety-one

In “Race and Beyond: Why Young, Minority, and Low-Income Citizens Don’t Vote,” Sam Fulwood claims, “Regardless of whether a favored candidate won or popular ballot initiative passed, our nation suffered because of the number of people who didn’t vote at all” (par. 2). I agree with Sam Fulwood and I believe it is so unfortunate that Americans don’t use this right. Voting is one of the most valuable possessions that Americans are given and yet they do not use. Many of the countries around the world do not grant voting rights to their citizens. These countries either have a dictatorship or kingdom which prevents citizens from voting. People need to understand the sufferings of those people who struggled for this right. When the United States

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Some scholars like Ellen DuBois, in The Radicalism of the Woman Suffrage Movement, argue that the vote was a complete necessity in order for women to assert their own foothold in the public sphere, defined by DuBois as “operating in the public world of work and politics.” Opposing this position, William O’Neill argued that the vote would provide no advance in the woman condition and that when the vote was gained, “feminists were in the same place they were before the movement even began.” Heidi Williamson does not necessarily take a side in this argument but she does proclaim that “voting ensures women’s reproductive and economic progress” because it causes candidates running for office to “cater” to the women condition in order to gain more support. As Williamson is simply observing what the vote did for women, and she does not speak to what the Women’s Movement hoped to attain, she does not intervene in the discussion between DuBois and O’Neill; however, using the premise of Williamson’s observations it is clear that women of the early twentieth century were motivated by the discrimination in the workplace to gain their right to ballot so that they could use the vote to strive for pay equality, a better environment in the workplace, and gain the possibility to advance their position in said environment.

The United States is notorious on the international scale for having one of the worst voter turnouts in the world. By pushing us to be obligated to take part in the happenings of our nation, this clause has advocated for the most fundamental piece of democracy: voting. Voting is what puts the power in the people’s hands and builds the nation’s ideal of popular sovereignty. Although it is true that we are not a direct democracy and that we do not vote ourselves on the creation of laws, we are absolutely in control of who does and does not make our laws. We are a representative democracy, and it is our duty to make sure we elect officials who share our values and act according to our will. We must never forget that our government and its officials work for us and never the other way around. To decide who we want working for us, we have elections. It is perhaps our most important role as citizens to actively investigate who we put into office. It is imperative that we find our best men and women to run our nation. This clause tells us to not only take an active part in our government but insinuates that we vote and do so

Women 's Suffrage is a matter that can be within one 's control, and without much of a stretch be viewed as a dark imprint on the historical backdrop of the United States. The events leading up to women 's having the right to vote endeavors many turning points, however, the end isn 't all so bad. In this particular piece of writing, I will examine many scenarios, accompanying noteworthy significant figures included in the women suffrage.

Since the United States of America established itself as its own self-governing country, one of the things that caused it to be salient and stand out from other countries is its relentless insistence on functioning as a democracy. Wars and protests have occurred so that every type of people, whether it was women or African Americans, may be granted the right to vote. Having a say in the American government is an honor and a privilege bestowed upon American citizens when they reach the age of eighteen. However, in recent years, statistics have shown that voter turnout and participation in recent elections has been rapidly and steadily declining, causing the United States to have the lowest voter participation in the world (“Is the System

The right to vote in the United States of America has been an utmost blessing paved through by preceding generations. The ability to vote has provided many Americans the opportunity to channel their political views and elect a representative to best govern a state and/or the country. The Electoral College is a standard used to establish the President and the vice-president elect. Indirect elections are held in each state to obtain a fair representation of the people’s vote. However, for some time in history, individuals of specific races and/or gender did not possess the same privilege to vote. Furthermore, this paper will highlight the history of voting in the United Sates and the specific groups discriminated against.

In 1915, five years before women were permitted the vote in America, an article disseminated in The New York Times prescribed that, when everyone of every religion, sex, monetary status, and race had the ability to vote, class control would end and the honest to goodness vote based framework would take after. Such a declaration was cheerful, in the meantime, ideal around one hundred years sometime later, there are as yet a couple edges that stay consistent. Regardless, American history demonstrates that across the board suffrage is not satisfactory to ensure honest to goodness vote based framework and keep the abuse of minority social events.

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).

The United States of America is one of the oldest contemporary democracies, is currently the second largest democracy, and is ranked the 16th best democracy in the world (Campbell et. Al, 2014). Yet there is a legitimate question over whether or not the United States can still truly be considered a democracy, with some studies even suggesting it has begun to resemble an oligarchy (Chumley, 2014). In this essay, I will use Dahl’s criteria of voting equality and effective participation to determine whether or not the United States are truly a democracy.

This essay explains the argument that a democracy for the few exists in America as presented by Michael Parenti in his textbook, Democracy for the Few.