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...

Section 5 has preserved racially monolithic congressional districts, protected incumbents, and laid undue burdens on small jurisdictions.

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.

The Unintended Consequences of Section 5 of the Voting Rights ActBy Edward BlumAEI Press, 2007, $15.00

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Data from the Project on Fair Representation, which commissioned two social scientists to research the state of minority participation in the election process in the jurisdictions covered by section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

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

A summary of the Voting Rights Act papers by Bullock and Gaddie, part of the AEI Policy Series.