Throughout modern history, people have fought and died for the right to vote in multiparty elections. In many nations, people have risen up and deposed military dictators so they could vote and in many nations that struggle still continues today. In our nation, the struggle for the right to vote continued for over a century after the U.S. Constitution granted voting rights to white male landowners. It took over a century before American women were given the right to vote. African-Americans have had the constitutional right to vote for 130 years, but it wasn't until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 before these rights were enforced by federal authorities. Eighteen-year-olds were granted the right to vote more than three decades ago. Democracy, even in America, is a hard-won right. Despite the precious nature of democracy, about half of Americans who are eligible don't bother to vote. Today, almost every American eighteen and older is eligible to vote,......
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