This thesis analyzes the legal parameters surrounding the current state of felony disenfranchisement within the United States. It looks at the practice from an historical and legal perspective, analyzing the institution and implementation of felony disenfranchisement laws, their effects, and their uses. Further, the thesis analyzes current and historical legal activism regarding the matter, and highlights the successes and failures of differing legal tactics attempting to change or abolish felony disenfranchisement. In so doing, this thesis attempts to express the difficulties such laws face when analyzed under the legal microscope of equal protection, as well as the difficulties that arise when trying to work within the legal sphere to challenge their use and incorporation. Further, the analysis and subsequent conclusions provide a means by which current activism might better challenge the legal standing and implementation of these laws
