Felon disenfranchisement

One controversial controversy over today's political field, particularly during the election period, is denial of rights for felony charges. For those dating back to the U.S. colonial rule and early England, felony crime, or deprivation of felony and previous felony voting rights, was carried out; however, it has recently been very controversial and propaganda became. "In today's political regime, the only adults who are deprived of voting rights are felonies and former felonies, the number of people prohibited from voting is about 7 million, exceeding 2% of the population of the population" ( Reiman 3).

The denial of felony rights includes several important constitutional issues. First, I will study how the most appropriate question for standard review, or how judiciary pay attention to the law of deprivation of a felony. The first is the standard of rationality. Assuming that the Constitution essentially leaves the problem to the state and does not necessarily receive federal interference, this standard leaves much room for deciding who is entitled to vote. The second is a strict examination criterion that Smarchel considers to be the most applicable. This strict examination criteria will transfer the burden of proof to the state in this case; since the voting rights are very fundamental, the state will use these laws to maintain substantial and convincing government interests We have to define why we need it.

The deprivation of serious offender's right has a long history and is closely related to the act of forfeiting a convicted felony before an old British was executed. In the US, the southern states used civil rights felony deprivation in the age of Jim Crow, combining head taxes, literacy tests, and other African American anti-balloting strategies. Recently, since politicians focused on "law and order" and "strike" crime, felony beliefs, especially minority communities were convicted in the 1970s (Harvey (1994)).

Unfortunately, the privilege of being deprived of rights is not just a problem in Florida. According to the sentinel plan, more than 2 million black Americans can not vote in the 2016 general election. This means that one out of the 13 blacks was deprived of citizenship by convictions of felony charges (four times the sin of others). With the exception of Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, we have serious problems that everyone is deprived of their rights and that at least one black person convicted of convictions of at least five can not.