Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot is the story of a courageous group of Alabama students and teachers who, along with other activists, fought a nonviolent battle to win voting rights for African Americans in the South. Standing in their way, a century of Jim Crow, a resistant and segregationist state, and a federal government slow to fully embrace equality. By organizing and marching bravely in the face of intimidation, violence, arrest and even murder, these change-makers achieved one of the most significant victories of the civil rights era.
<u>A. Popular sovereignty.</u>
This political doctrine holds that all political power that governs society (authorities of states and federal government) is inherent in the people, that is to say, people create it, gives consents to it and sustains it. The U.S. Constitution this concept by guaranteeing people's right to choose their representative (individuals that advocate for their needs, desires, and projects as a society ) through fair and democratic elections.
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All freedmen-with no lawful employment shall be fined a sum--and imprisoned
