When was disenfranchisement invented?
Score: 4.9/5 (39 votes) Background. The first US felony disenfranchisement laws were introduced in 1792 in Kentucky, and by 1840 four states had felony disenfranchisement policies. By the American Civil War, about twenty-four states had some form of felony disenfranchisement policy or similar provis...
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