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Increasing Youth Participation: The Case For A National Voter Pre-Registration Law, Ceridwen Cherry
Increasing Youth Participation: The Case For A National Voter Pre-Registration Law, Ceridwen Cherry
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Lagging youth participation rates threaten participatory democracy and undermine the representation of young people's interests in elected government. However, the percentage of registered youth who actually cast ballots is very high. The correlation between registration and actual voter participation suggests that when given assistance and greater opportunities to register, young citizens will vote. This Note proposes a national pre-registration law that would allow voter registration to begin at age sixteen. Such a law would be feasible, constitutional, and politically viable and may increase not only the voter participation of young people, but also the socioeconomic diversity of the electorate.
Deruglatory Riders Redux, Thomas O, Mcgarity
Deruglatory Riders Redux, Thomas O, Mcgarity
Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law
Soon after the 2010 elections placed the Republican Party in control of the House of Representatives, the House took up a number of deregulatory bills. Recognizing that deregulatory legislation had little chance of passing the Senate, which remained under the control of the Democratic Party, or of being signed by President Obama, the House leadership reprised a strategy adopted by the Republican leaders during the 104th Congress in the 1990s. The deregulatory provisions were attached as riders to much-needed legislation in an attempt to force the Senate and the President to accept the deregulatory riders to avoid the adverse consequences …