Legal

This is a legal document, through and through. If you like sections and subsections, you'll love the Voting Rights Act.

Documents like these will invariably be formatted in the same way—they're not really pleas or attempts at persuasion so much as they are ironclad rules, and keeping them in outline form makes the law clear.

How it Breaks Down

This document, as a law, is broken down into distinct sections, each tackling their own aspect of the law at large.

The ideas build on each other chronologically in some places, such as explaining the steps the Attorney General takes in order to ensure a local jurisdiction follows proper voting procedure, but it doesn't always move as such; especially towards the end, where each section seems to cover an obscure legal requirement.

Is it as exciting as a John LeCarré novel or as flowery as a Virginia Wolff joint? No; not at all. But it does get the job done…and that's what counts.