Why don felons have the right to vote?
Answer Sorry for the long wait, I’ve been on a nice vacation. Felons don’t have the right to vote for a few reasons. Even though lawmakers realize that many ex-convicts have been rehabilitated and contribute to society, usually most felons do not. Here are a few reasons: (1) Felons have broken the “social contract.” The social contract is a philosophical term that represents a complicated idea. Basically, felons broke the rules of society so severely that society has trouble trusting them anymore. These people still have rights that protect the government from harming them, but they don’t have the right to have input on changing the rules of society anymore, because it is clear that at one point they didn’t have society’s best interests in mind. (2) Historically, felons used to make up a higher percentage of the voting population. This is because most felons were younger white males — the exact type of person who was most likely to vote in early elections. The constitution’s writers w
