The Supreme Court decides not to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters — Vox

By the early second century BCE, all those who had been ‘citizens without the vote’ had gained the vote.

I hold it to be sufficiently demonstrated that universal suffrage is by no means a guarantee of the wisdom of the popular choice, and that, whatever its advantages may be, this is not one of them.

one of the powerful aspects of American society is that those who are economically desperate and socially displaced get to vote, and those who will be falling into the abyss are not a small marginal class but a large, multiracial, multiethnic class containing equal numbers of women and men. Their actions are inevitable and the results obvious. The