Or at least that’s what I was told about DC’s non-voting representative Eleanor Holmes Norton by someone or other. More importantly, however, this segment (found through http://del.icio.us/popular) from The Colbert Report shines some needed light on the issue of DC’s undemocratic status in our political system. If you want to do something about it, check […]
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The Only Constitutional Lawyer in Congress
Published July 28th, 2006 in Soapbox, Voting Rights and Links. 0 CommentsJust a quick note on something I should have put up a while ago: I’ve been published!!
My sophomore year ConLaw paper on DC Voting Rights was put on DCVote’s web site. You can read a copy in PDF form here. I’ve got to say, it’s pretty cool to have it included up there. I […]
Reflections on class January 13, 2006
Published January 13th, 2006 in Classes and Voting Rights. 0 CommentsStupid people voting as a first step: One idea that I came up with was that voting is a first step. Even if somebody is stupid and is voting for entirely the wrong reasons, their vote is something that brings them further into the process. Now they have a candidate’s name in their mind, and […]
Well, I just wrapped up the reading for Voting Rights and Representation, and I have a bit fewer comments about Smith.
First of all, I found that he spent far too much time saying what his focus was or would be and none at all actually justifying it. The only justification for the relevance of citizenship […]
That was incredibly engaging and enjoyable reading (with the one problem of reading the poorly scanned document). Anyway, the link is here. First comment, in reading the introduction, I could not agree more with the following paragraph:
“On the other hand, we could measure our democracy against an ideal (even if admittedly unachievable) standard. I would […]
Just finished reading Sidney Verba’s comments on equality of political participation for class (if you’re wondering which one, note the categories). Anyway, I have comments on both the content and the writing in the article:
First, the writing: I felt that Verba posed the question well at the beginning, but framed the question in […]
