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This 12 page paper discusses the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the recent battle over extending its provisions. The extension was signed into law in August, 2007, with its controversial provisions intact. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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passed to support the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing the right to vote, particularly to African-Americans who were being systematically disenfranchised in the South. The paper looks at the
original Act and its purpose, and the controversy surrounding it today, especially with regard to two proposals with regard to printing ballots in languages other than English; and redistricting provisions.
Because of the debate about it, it is the redistricting provisions that will constitute most of the paper. The analytic model used here is descriptive, which is defined as: "Physical,
conceptual or mathematical models that describe situations as they are or as they actually appear" (Power, 1999). Since the bulk of the paper is a literature review, the analysis will
be conceptual, focusing on describing the facts of the Voting Rights Act and the reasons for its passage. The paper will focus only on the 1965 Act, and on the
controversial measures under consideration today: namely, "extending" or "renewing" the act again with the provisions about English-language ballots and redistricting attached to the legislation. Background The first Voting Rights Act
was written by Congress in 1965, because at that time "many southern states were engaged in extraordinary efforts to deny black citizens their Fifteenth Amendment right to vote. Congress therefore
authorized extraordinary federal interventions for five years. But the deadline was extended in 1970, 1975, and 1982--in that last case, for 25 years" (Ponnuru, 2006, p. 22). It is now
time to "renew" those extraordinary interventions, and the legislation has run into problems. (It was finally passed in August, 2006 but remains controversial.) In June, 2006, a small number of
Republicans in the House blocked a vote on the bill that would have renewed the provisions of the original Act (Ponnuru, 2006). The bill is officially called the "Fannie Lou
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