B'nai B'rith – Children of the covenant

1989 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-139
Author(s):  
Hans Levy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Individual Member ◽  
Jewish Organization ◽  
Umbrella Organization ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right

B’nai B’rith is the oldest international Jewish organization. In contrast to most other Jewish organizations, BB has no hierarchy, nor is it an umbrella organization. It is totally democratic, it is still the only major Jewish organization, in which every individual member has the right to vote. From the beginning, BB was an order for Jewish men. The main purpose of BB has been to serve the Jewish people. BB was founded in United States, but rapidly expanded to Europe. In order to fulfil this great mission, different agencies have been established in the course of time.

Collateral Consequences and Disenfranchisement

2019 ◽  
pp. 168-186
Author(s):  
Vanessa A. Edkins
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Current System ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Collateral Consequences ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right ◽  
Convicted Felons ◽  
Proper Consideration

With the high rate of guilty pleas in our justice system, attention needs to be paid to the consequences of these convictions, beyond the sanctions imposed at a sentencing hearing. Namely, the increase in guilty pleas has led to an unprecedented number of United States citizens with restrictions imposed on them that limit their employment, access to housing or government assistance, and to an unprecedented number being deprived of the right to vote. These collateral consequences of convictions, and the disenfranchisement resulting from the loss of the vote, can disrupt an individual’s life often to a greater extent than the short imprisonment many convicted felons face. This chapter looks at the effects of collateral consequences and disenfranchisement, how these may play into the decision to accept a plea (and who should be informing defendants about these restrictions), and whether proper consideration of the effect of collateral consequences is possible given how our current system of pleas is structured. Areas for future research are also identified.

The Issue of Parliamentary Suffrage at the Frankfurt National Assembly

1972 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Rose
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Political World ◽  
Lower House ◽  
Universal Suffrage ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right ◽  
Electoral Law

Universal suffrage is a commonplace in today's political world. In modern Western states it seems self-explanatory that there should be a general right to vote, or at least the pretense of such a right; and it is rather the exception to universal suffrage that requires explanation—at best as a quaint local peculiarity, at worst as a sign of pigheadedness or paranoia. In our era of bland populism, it is easy to forget the nineteenth century's passion over suffrage matters. But passion there was: from the sanscullottes of the 1790's to the suffragettes of the 1910's, no decade of the nineteenth century, no part of the Atlantic world was entirely free from this all-important question. Indeed suffrage issues erupted regularly whenever and wherever internal political tensions ran highest. Anti-Bourbon agitation in Restoration France, Chartist demands in England, Negro emancipation in the United States, demands for reform of Bismarckian Germany's Prussian heartland—these issues spanned the century, and they all contained at least some taint of the suffrage question. The European revolutions of 1848–49 came roughly at the mid-point of this century-long suffrage debate, and these revolutions too raised in various ways the issue of the right to vote. And one of the most interesting discussions of the franchise question came in February and March of 1849, when Germany's abortive constitutional convention, the Frankfurt National Assembly, turned its attention to an Electoral Law for the lower house of the projected national representative body.

The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
pp. 1342
Author(s):  
Ann D. Gordon ◽  
Alexander Keyssar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right

The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 1044
Author(s):  
J. Morgan Kousser ◽  
Alexander Keyssar ◽  
Mark Lawrence Kornbluh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right

Effects of Identification Requirements on Voting: Evidence from the Experiences of Voters on Election Day

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (01) ◽  
pp. 127-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Ansolabehere
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Election Reform ◽  
Administrative Procedures ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Training

At the heart of the efforts to improve elections in the United States are two important values: access and integrity. To guarantee the right to vote, the polls must be accessible to all who wish to vote. To guarantee legitimate elections, only eligible people should be allowed to vote, and all votes must be tabulated correctly. These values have different implications for administrative procedures, ranging from the implementation of registration systems to the choice of voting equipment to the set up of polling places and training of poll workers. Often these values work hand in hand, but at times they are at odds. Such is the case with the authentication of voters at the polls (see National Commission on Federal Election Reform 2002).

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