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Date Issued:
2004
Summary:
The presidential election of 2000 was not the first United States presidential election to end with uncertainty. The contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore was not the first to introduce Americans to disputed vote tallies in crucial swing states, to the possibility of separate and competing slates of potential electors, or even to the notion that one person's vote really might matter after all. History had already born witness to many of those prospects during the 1877 presidential race between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes, which Hayes ultimately won. The 2000 election was novel, however, in the sense that it inspired a series of legal battles that culminated in a landmark United States Supreme Court case. Bush v. Gore (531 U.S. 98) provoked questions concerning the legal meaning of equality, the nature of federalism, and the role the Supreme Court should play in determining how state courts should interpret state laws.
Title: Double take: looking beyond the first glance at Bush v. Gore and the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Name(s): Lewis, Kathryn Nicole.
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Thesis
Issuance: multipart monograph
Date Issued: 2004
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Physical Form: electronic
electronic resource
Extent: v, 81 leaves : ill.
Language(s): English
Summary: The presidential election of 2000 was not the first United States presidential election to end with uncertainty. The contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore was not the first to introduce Americans to disputed vote tallies in crucial swing states, to the possibility of separate and competing slates of potential electors, or even to the notion that one person's vote really might matter after all. History had already born witness to many of those prospects during the 1877 presidential race between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes, which Hayes ultimately won. The 2000 election was novel, however, in the sense that it inspired a series of legal battles that culminated in a landmark United States Supreme Court case. Bush v. Gore (531 U.S. 98) provoked questions concerning the legal meaning of equality, the nature of federalism, and the role the Supreme Court should play in determining how state courts should interpret state laws.
Identifier: 315857507 (oclc), 11571 (digitool), FADT11571 (IID), fau:1305 (fedora)
Note(s): by Kathryn Nicole Lewis.
Thesis (B.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, Honors College, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-81).
Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2004. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject(s): Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-
Gore, Albert, 1948-
Florida. Supreme Court.
United States. 14th Amendment.
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