The Right to Vote and the Rise of Democracy, 1787-1828

@article{Ratcliffe2013TheRT,
  title={The Right to Vote and the Rise of Democracy, 1787-1828},
  author={Donald J. Ratcliffe},
  journal={Journal of the Early Republic},
  year={2013},
  volume={33},
  pages={219 - 254},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145135025}
}
  • D. Ratcliffe
  • Published 17 April 2013
  • History, Political Science
  • Journal of the Early Republic
Historians and political scientists continue to emphasize the connection between the expansion of the suffrage to almost all adult white males and Andrew Jackson's election to the presidency in 1828… 
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