Gender/Race and Political Engagement in United States

1. The essential right of every citizen in a democratic country is the right to vote. Without rights, people will be ignored and abused by their government.The points below explain about the gender/race and political engagement in United states and UK respectively;

• In United States

1. In the United States, voting was managed by the people state legislatures and only white men aging 21 who women the right to vote.
2. In 1870, the amendment established tried to eliminate some problems associated with voting, but still, many states continued to practice the discrimination.
3. Furthermore, another modification was developed to grant women right to vote, but the amendment did not include Hispanic women, Asian women, and Indian women.

• That’s means that the voting issues still existed.

2) In UK

1. In the UK, voting was restricted to males by the custom and not statute. However, black men have never been denied a chance to vote based on color.
2. Slavery never existed in the UK until the 1970s when many racial equality laws were included, excluding the issue of race.
3. Slavery was not prohibited in the UK until the 21^stcentury since it had never been lawful. However, there is modern slavery, which is not immoral nut dissimilar.

• Women were denied rights to vote in the 18^thcentury. Even in the expansion of the franchise, they continued to be denied their rights to vote.

1. The question of their voting rights became an issue whey they were not granted the right to vote.
2. There has been efforts and movement included in both the UK and the USA to ensure everyone got the right to vote.

• In United States

1. Before the incident of the civil war, the United States did not offer any protection for the voters.
2. Voting qualifications were either federal or constitution governed.
3. The amendment(14^th) was approved in 1868 and deliberated citizenship to everyone either naturalized or by birth.
4. The other 15^thamendment was still developed and offered the right to vote regardless of color, race, or servitude condition.
5. Women were allowed to vote in 1910 after the 19^th
6. Federal rights were applied in 1964 to ensure that all men and women aged 21 and above, regardless of education, religion, or race, had the right to vote.
7. The efforts continued till 2008, whereby the voters got the right to choose their favorite candidate—this common type of voting, which commonly exists even in other societies.

• In UK

1. From 1265, some male adults in the UK were able to vote, and that occur on an irregular basis.
2. Some acts were developed to extend the voting rights for the people, especially black men and women.
3. Reform act in 1832 extended the right to vote to males who had lad of particular value, so permitting one in every seven males to vote.
4. Between the year 1885 and 1918, some moves were made to women’s movement to ensure women’s votes.
5. First world war stopped the action.
6. The impact of the war forces the government to the extent the right to vote for men who vote in war and women who worked in factories.
7. Such kind of step increased the electorate to 21.4 million from 7.7 million, whereby women contributed to 8.5 million.
8. This indicated that the freedom of women to vote was granted.
9. The action takes place even nowadays, where women have been given the right to vote. The same things apply to colors and races where people can vote freely without any discrimination.
10. Still, more debates were carried out to ensure that black men and women engaged in political activities.

• In United States
• A good example is the voting right of 1965, which aimed at overcoming some legal barriers at the states as well as the local levels that hindered black men and women from exercising their freedom to vote in the US.
• Even after the establishment of democracy to vote, there exist some challenges which might make them not to vote.
• That’s why more debate still exists

3) In UK

• In UK, Gender quotas exists, which debate power acquisition.
• In the United Kingdom, again, issues exist on whether women must be given more power or not.

4. There are still obstacles in an attempt to fight exclusion and suppression of black people and women on political actions.

• In UK
• People born in the United Kingdom might be shocked to realize that they are not citizens of that country.
• The modern liberal citizenship affects citizenship of many people.
• Sometimes the government might not accept the citizens with two nationalities. Not all states allow citizens with dual citizenship, and through such, they may end up losing their voting rights.

4) In United States

• The incapability of the US to contribute to the democratic procedure lead to reduced political power.
• Black people and women continue to witness discrimination in voting, even after a long struggle to eliminate it.
• In 2018, the United States gave voter suppression approval when its reigned Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute that countries were allowed to through legible voters off their voter rolls due to their attempt to skip some elections.
• This led to the removal of millions of the voters and denied them their right to vote.

 

 

 

 

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