Author: Joshua A. Douglas
Publisher:
ISBN: 1633885100
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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"An expert on US election law presents an encouraging assessment of current efforts to make our voting system more accessible, reliable, and effective"--
Author: Kate Farrell
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250798035
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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V Is for Voting is an ABC book that introduces progressive families to concepts like social justice and civil rights and reminds readers that every vote counts! A is for active participation. B is for building a more equal nation. C is for citizens' rights and our duty. D is for difference, our strength and our beauty. An engaging introduction to the tenets of democracy, V Is for Voting is a playful, poetic, and powerful primer about the importance of voting and activism. Featuring Kate Farrell’s rhyming text and Caitlin Kuhwald’s bold art, plus thoughtful back matter, the book is a gorgeous, and crucial, addition to every young reader’s library. It makes the perfect gift for fans of A Is for Activist, Woke Baby, and Feminist Baby.
Author: Mark Shulman
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823447936
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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With the next presidential election upon us, this witty, nonpartisan book will help explain the concept of voting to the youngest readers. I Voted explains the concept of choosing, individually, and as a group, from making a simple choice: "Which do you like better, apples or oranges?", to selecting a class pet, to even more complicated decisions, like electing community representatives. You may not always get want you want, but there are strategies to better your odds! Serge Bloch's effortless and charming illustrations paired with Mark Shulman's funny and timely text create a perfect resource for discussing current events with your children. Backmatter includes information about the United States electoral process. Selected for the CBC Champions of Change Showcase A Junior Library Guild Selection!
Author: Margaret McNamara
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 1984892827
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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In this charming and powerful picture book about voting and elections, the students of Stanton Elementary School learn how we can find--and use--our voices for change. Every two years, on the first Tuesday of November, Stanton Elementary School closes for the day. For vacation? Nope! For repairs? No way! Stanton Elementary School closes so that it can transform itself into a polling station. People can come from all over to vote for the people who will make laws for the country. Sure, the Stanton Elementary School students might be too young to vote themselves, but that doesn't mean they can't encourage their parents, friends, and family to vote! After all, voting is how this country sees change--and by voting today, we can inspire tomorrow's voters to change the future.
Author: Robert Fowler
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781719844178
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Make your voice heard! Voting is an easy and important process. This book explains everything you need to know to register to vote! It includes state-specific information, too. You'll learn how to register to vote, the different ways to vote, what to do on Election Day, and much more. Discover the following in this book: The three main requirements to vote Who cannot vote The different ways to register to vote How to update voter registration How to vote early How to vote by mail What to do if you
Author: Gru Free
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 149085181X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Deciding who runs the country and which way it goes is up to you and me. Do you vote? Who do you vote for? Are they a blessing or a curse to you and others, or do you know? Rush Limbaugh calls the uninformed low information voters. Unfortunately we also have no information voters who don’t have a clue. The land of Israel belongs to Almighty God. He watches over it, and he keeps it. Though Israel is surrounded by roughly 300 million enemies, Israel remains and their enemies slaughter themselves. From Israel come the prophets of God, the Bible, the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, through whom every good and perfect gift comes. The command to arm ourselves for personnel protection comes from the Lord, out of the land of Israel. Vote Right. Moving boundary stones or property identification for one’s own benefit is stealing, as is blurring the lines of our own constitution. Barack was given an important assignment which he needed to carry out. However, he failed to accomplish the task because he needed a woman’s leadership and wouldn’t do it alone. So the Lord handed the honor to a woman. Twenty five hundred years ago a king reined in the Middle East, and because of his Idol the original tea party was born. Three young men who refused to bow, bend or be intimidated by this kings orders, commands, threats.
Author: Eric Holder
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 0593445740
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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A brutal, bloody, and at times hopeful history of the vote; a primer on the opponents fighting to take it away; and a playbook for how we can save our democracy before it’s too late—from the former U.S. Attorney General on the front lines of this fight Voting is our most important right as Americans—“the right that protects all the others,” as Lyndon Johnson famously said when he signed the Voting Rights Act—but it’s also the one most violently contested throughout U.S. history. Since the gutting of the act in the landmark Shelby County v. Holder case in 2013, many states have passed laws restricting the vote. After the 2020 election, President Trump’s effort to overturn the vote has evolved into a slow-motion coup, with many Republicans launching an all-out assault on our democracy. The vote seems to be in unprecedented peril. But the peril is not at all unprecedented. America is a fragile democracy, Eric Holder argues, whose citizens have only had unfettered access to the ballot since the 1960s. He takes readers through three dramatic stories of how the vote was won: first by white men, through violence and insurrection; then by white women, through protests and mass imprisonments; and finally by African Americans, in the face of lynchings and terrorism. Next, he dives into how the vote has been stripped away since Shelby—a case in which Holder was one of the parties. He ends with visionary chapters on how we can reverse this tide of voter suppression and become a true democracy where every voice is heard and every vote is counted. Full of surprising history, intensive analysis, and actionable plans for the future, this is a powerful primer on our most urgent political struggle from one of the country's leading advocates.
Author: McSweeney's
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307948633
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Ever since John Hancock broke into song after signing the Declaration of Independence, American politics and musicals have been inextricably linked. From Alexander Hamilton's jazz hands, to Chester A. Arthur's oboe operas, to Newt Gingrich's off-Broadway sexscapade, You, Me, and My Moon Colony Mistress Makes Three, government and musical theater have joined forces to document our nation's long history of freedom, partisanship, and dancers on roller skates pretending to be choo choo trains. To celebrate this grand union of entrenched bureaucracy and song, the patriots at McSweeney's Internet Tendency (“The Iowa Caucus of humor websites”) offer this riotous collection (peacefully assembled!) of monologues, charts, scripts, lists, diatribes, AND musicals written by the noted fake-musical lyricist, Ben Greenman. On the agenda are . . . Fragments from PALIN! THE MUSICAL Barack Obama’s Undersold 2012 Campaign Slogans Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Financial Crisis Your Attempts to Legislate Hunting Man for Sport Reek of Class Warfare A 1980s Teen Sex Comedy Becomes Politically Uncomfortable Donald Rumsfeld Memoir Chapter Title Or German Heavy Metal Song? Noises Political Pundits Would Make If They Were Wild Animals and Not Political Pundits Ron Paul Gives a Guided Tour of His Navajo Art Collection Classic Nursery Rhymes, Updated and Revamped for the Recession, As Told to Me By My Father And much more!
Author: Ralph Nader
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 142997852X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Ralph Nader is one of America's most passionate and effective social critics. He has been called a muckraker, a consumer crusader, and America's public defender. The cars we drive, the food we eat, the water we drink-their safety has been enhanced largely due to Ralph Nader. His inspiration and example have rallied consumer advocates, citizen activists, public interest lawyers, and government officials into action, and in the 2000 election, nearly three million people voted for him. An inspiring and defiant memoir, Crashing the Party takes us inside Nader's campaign and explains what it took to fight the two-party juggernaut; why Bush and Gore were really afraid to let him in on their debates; why progressive Democrats have been left behind and ignored by their party; how Democrat and Republican interests have been lost to corporate bankrolling; and what needs to happen in the future for people to take back their political system.
Author: Tony Maglione
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781452889009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This is a very critical time in our nation's history. Those we vote for will influence the country's future direction. Americans need to take back this country by voting for candidates that will help this country recover from its woes and move toward a healthier and more prosperous nation.This book describes a new process of thinking when voting. It compares and explains why certain groups or types of candidates are more desirable than others. The analysis of these candidates is similar to methods utilized by physicians in caring for their patients every day. This book will enable Americans to better decide who to vote for and who not to vote for.
