Voting Rights Act Themes
Principles
Because the Voting Rights Act is a law and not a chapter book, it might not have themes the way we're used to seeing them. But there's some good news: the content of the bill absolutely fits into t...
Equality
The Voting Rights Act is meant as a harpoon to the Great White Whale of systematic racism in the United States. And we're using that Moby Dick metaphor lightly: the people who drafted this act were...
Rules and Order
You don't get more "rules and order"-y than an actual law. The Voting Rights Act isn't a plea for humanity; this is a law, and has ironclad rules that must be followed. Law and order, crime and pun...