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Vasenin V.G..
Regulatory and Legal Restrictions of the North American Voter up to the 20th Century
// History magazine - researches. – 2018. – ¹ 6.
– P. 131-150.
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Abstract: The author’s research interest is focused on the transformation of the regulatory and legal restrictions of the electoral law in the North American electoral process up to the end of the 19th century.The subject field is drawn by defining the structure and analyzing the qualification requirements as an integral system of restrictive regulation on the size and composition of the electoral body, which allowed the exclusion of certain social, religious, professional, ethnic and other groups and strata of the American society. The author examines the origins of the qualifying restrictions in the electoral law, which began in the period of the late colonial history. The methodological basis of this study is the comparative historical approach, which also considers the emergence and directional influence of various qualifying restrictions in the North American electoral law during the named historical stage. The main source used for this research are the materials from the two-volume edition of "The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies, Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America", prepared by the upper chamber of the US Congress and published in the national press department of government documents in 1787. This study has confirmed the lack of balance between the government and states objectively declared right of citizens to elect and be elected and the subjective right that the voter-individual held in reality. By having a discriminatory effect on the system of personal and individual characteristics of citizens, the qualifying restrictions on the right to vote, which was of constitutional design or in the form higher court decisions (at federal and state levels), allowed to regulate the number and composition of the electorate and to exclude certain social, religious, professional groups and strata of the American society.
The author’s research interest is focused on the transformation of the legal restrictions on electoral law in the North American electoral process until the end of the 19th century.The subject field is localized by defining the structure and analyzing qualification requirements as an integral system of restrictive regulation of the size and composition of the electoral body, which allows excluding certain social, religious, professional, ethnic and other groups and strata of American society. The author examines the origins of the qualifying restrictions of electoral law, which began in the period of late colonial history. The methodological basis of the study is a comparative historical approach, within the framework of which the emergence and directional influence of various qualifying restrictions of the North American electoral right at this historical stage is considered.
Keywords: citizenship qualification, freehold qualification, race qualifications, moral and piety qualifications, gender qualification, electoral qualifications, residence qualification, voting right, property qualification, poll tax
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