Abstract
Decisionmaking at the local government level has been significantly affected by both national legislation and federal court decisions seeking to protect the right to vote. Indeed, Professor Sentell feels that the Supreme Court, through decisions invalidating restrictions on the franchise, has involved itself to an unparalleled degree in heretofore purely local affairs. In examining these decisions, the author queries if legitimate voting regulations may be now imposed by local governments. In so doing he focuses upon the Court's equal protection analysis of extraordinary majority vote requirements and elections restricted to certain segments of the electorate and upon the expansive judicial treatment given the federal review provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Repository Citation
R. Perry Sentell Jr.,
Federalizing Through the Franchise: The Supreme Court and Local Government
(1971),
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Georgia Law Review, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Fall 1971), pp. 34-73