POL3140 Lecture Notes - Voting Age
20 Mar 2014
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Expediency thesis: the enfranchisement of women was meant as a way to consolidate power in the hands of white and upper class individuals. Because this added white people to the electoral voting. It can also be viewed as when life in the south was disrupted, it took a certain level of chaos before individuals became enfranchised: what the social movement are saying are not directly reflective in the laws. If women were listening to the movement then the movements should follow but there is no consistency: she doesn"t explain why these movements didn"t have traction.
