Deconstructing the Republic: Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Founders' Republicanism ReconsideredBy Anthony A. PeacockAEI Press, 2008, $25.00 ...

Peacock contends that theVRA, as it is currently implemented, undermines the Founders' vision of government by emphasizing racial and ethnic group rights over individual rights.

The Founders intended for individuals to choose their representatives based on their character and how well they would promote the common good, not because of their membership in any one racial, ethnic, or religious group. The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 sought to reaffirm this principle by outlawing the...

The American republic relies upon a common, egalitarian citizenship, but this republican virtue has been under assault from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its judicial interpretation.

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