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Texas Disenfranchisement Of Felons, Michelle Baker
Texas Disenfranchisement Of Felons, Michelle Baker
Quest
Policy Research Project
Research in progress for GOVT 2306: Honors Texas Government
Faculty Mentor: Tiffany Cartwright, Ph.D.
Michelle Baker wrote the following research paper as an assignment for my online GOVT 2306: Honors Texas Government class during the Fall 2020 semester. The class assignment helps students begin to formulate a classic policy paper, in which alternative policy options are discussed and analyzed, ultimately leading to a preferred policy option. Students submitted just a few paragraphs of the paper at a time over the course of the fall semester before finally pulling everything together in one cohesive research paper. As Michelle’s …
The Messy History Of Michigan’S “Purity Clause”, Joshua Perry
The Messy History Of Michigan’S “Purity Clause”, Joshua Perry
Michigan Law Review Online
So it’s worth asking: What does the Purity Clause actually mean? Can contemporary courts properly invoke it to justify restrictions purportedly aimed at controlling “voter fraud”? Should they?
Part I diagnoses the problem: Recently, Michigan courts have invoked the Purity Clause to legitimize voting rights restrictions without applying their usual tools of constitutional interpretation or scrutinizing the Clause’s complex history. As a result, voting restrictions have been justified by reference to a badly underexamined constitutional provision.
Part II examines the Clause with the tools that Michigan courts use to interpret the state constitution. This Part argues that neither the original …