There has never been a time since universal suffrage when establishment politics has been so cut off. |
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The agreement provided for qualified majority rule and elections with universal suffrage. |
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Craig used a forthcoming review of local government structures to procrastinate on the issue of universal suffrage in local government. |
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Yet universal suffrage has failed to deliver the results which even Karl Marx once thought it might. |
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To the proletariat the imperial suffrage has been a mighty weapon in its battle for emancipation. |
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This erupted in Belgium in 1891, 1893 and 1902, winning universal suffrage. |
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If black enfranchisement meant the dilution of Caucasian suffrage, whites just had to get over it. |
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The reformers were very divided in their aims, which ranged from modest franchise reform to universal manhood suffrage. |
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In 1944, with the granting of a new constitution, Jamaicans gained universal suffrage. |
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This would be her last public address as head of the woman suffrage movement. |
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The outspoken wet in a dry, dry Liberal Party was fronting the official celebrations for this week's centenary of female suffrage. |
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Although women could work in slums or in the back country of foreign lands, national suffrage would surely permanently soil them. |
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We have moved on since then, and we have developed wider democracy, universal suffrage, and the role of the media, which is important. |
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While senators are appointed by the King, deputies of the lower house are directly elected by universal suffrage. |
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A handful of Scotswomen provided some of the most energetic of the suffrage campaigners who harried the government. |
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The Members of Parliament are elected by universal suffrage from 20 provinces and 89 districts. |
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Franco eliminated universal suffrage and viewed any criticism of the regime as treason. |
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The last general election saw the lowest turnout since universal suffrage was introduced. |
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The most significant of these was of course the ability to say mass, acknowledged to be the most effective suffrage for the dead. |
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Elections were built around universal suffrage and proportional representation. |
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Marx and Engels supported the Chartists' campaign for universal suffrage and for factory legislation to reduce the working day. |
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However Stephen Matthews lost some support when he invoked the women's suffrage movement. |
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The area of political rights involves suffrage and women's rights to run for office, or hold appointed positions of power in government. |
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But it has dragged its feet on expanding suffrage for the election of officials at higher levels. |
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The Minister of State is responsible to the Prince, not to the National Council elected by a general suffrage. |
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In the final analysis, he argued, there is no right of suffrage in the election of a president. |
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But if we Hellenise a little, we will see that real equality is not a matter of universal suffrage or the rights of minorities. |
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Key focus areas are voter turnout and participation, group voting behavior, the expansion of suffrage, and political realignment and dealignment. |
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Half of the members were to be appointed by the government and the other half to be elected on a limited suffrage. |
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Battles were fought first against slavery and segregation, then for universal suffrage and political representation. |
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The Constitution of the Second Republic of Gambia provides for elections by universal suffrage for adults eighteen and older. |
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In England the outbreak of war in 1914 brought about a crisis in the militant suffrage campaign. |
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Marx wrote that the Paris Commune was elected by universal suffrage but women didn't have the vote. |
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In this, it's like the more sophisticated political ideas behind universal suffrage. |
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Throughout history you would be considered open-minded if you supported desegregation, or women's suffrage, or even democracy. |
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She performs abortions in secret, supports suffrage, and caters to consumptives and TB sufferers when few other boarding-house establishments will take them. |
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The Third Republic was based upon a legislative assembly elected by universal male suffrage and proclaimed itself a thoroughly parliamentary regime. |
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They argued that only those with property should have the right to vote, and campaigned for a limited extension of suffrage to include propertied women. |
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Northern male black activists understood the colonization scheme as part of the same developments that denied them political freedom and suffrage. |
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Mahatma Ghandi made effective use of political fasts, as did the British suffragists, who brought hunger strikes to the American suffrage movement. |
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Willard and the WCTU also embraced the women's suffrage movement, advocating votes for women as a means of protecting the home and strengthening family values. |
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Likewise, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, in addition to its hendecagonal design, was nice because it featured a leader of the women's suffrage movement. |
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The fact that their followers themselves do not have the intelligence to exercise even only the right of suffrage makes the presumptuousness much more ridiculous. |
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The Assembly voted to suspend the monarchy and convoke a new body elected by manhood suffrage, the Convention, to draw up a republican constitution for the country. |
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In 1928, all women were given the vote, thus creating universal suffrage. |
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In 1851, ex-slave Sojourner Truth addressed a convention of white suffragettes and white ministers debating which issue was more important, abolition or women's suffrage. |
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Yet many proponents of universal suffrage were just as deluded, in their own way, as the Adullamites who clung to their rotten boroughs as if civilisation depended on them. |
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He agreed with Pareto that universal suffrage promoted the corrupt and devious political skills of the flatterer, the wheeler-dealer, and the populist demagogue. |
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At least since the last world war, most of the developed world has lived with the idea that popular suffrage is self-correcting. |
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While out of office, he campaigned for further reforms, including vote by ballot, household suffrage, and triennial parliaments, embarrassing the Whig ministers. |
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We look back now, to the civil rights movements and the female suffrage movements and hold our head in shame at the thought that it took us too long to grant these rights. |
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Time to put to good use the suffrage and the education that our foremothers of all classes and colors worked hard to win us. |
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In that country this year a ruling class which had always denied the vote to the great majority of the population was forced to concede universal suffrage at one blow. |
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I agree with the suffrage of women, the abolition of torture and so on. |
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Many of these had overtly political motives, like the 1893 General Strike that helped achieve universal suffrage. |
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The proposed law on universal suffrage was approved the day after by the Belgian Parliament. |
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Most followers supported causes such as the abolition of slavery and women's suffrage. |
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Lactantius and St. Austin confirm by their suffrage the observation made by heathen writers. |
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But these 60-somethings share more than the bonds of suffrage. |
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The CIA and MIO engineered the 1953 coup that reinstated Shah Reza Pahlevi, who made some reforms like female suffrage. |
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In the United States, suffrage is equated to citizenship and citizenship defines membership, decision-making authority, and deservingness. |
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In most countries, suffrage is limited to citizens and, in many cases, permanent residents of that country. |
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Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people. |
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Political agitation at home from radicals such as the Chartists and the suffragettes enabled legislative reform and universal suffrage. |
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In 1832, the Reform Act extended the vote in Britain but did not grant universal suffrage. |
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The Representation of the People Act 1918 gave women householders the vote, but it would not be until 1928 that full equal suffrage was achieved. |
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They successfully campaigned for women's right to education, women's suffrage, the right to work and other gender equality policies. |
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Late August 1792, elections were held, now under male universal suffrage, for the new National Convention. |
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It was progressive and radical in several respects, in particular by establishing universal male suffrage. |
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The universal male suffrage of 1793 was replaced by limited suffrage based on property. |
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The Reform League campaigned for manhood suffrage in the 1860s, and included former Chartists amongst its ranks. |
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The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, founded in 1897, was formed from local suffrage societies. |
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Throughout the woman's suffrage movement, many tactics were employed in order to achieve the goals of the movement. |
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Searle says the methods of the suffragettes did succeed in damaging the Liberal party but failed to advance the cause of women's suffrage. |
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In any case, where universal suffrage exists, the right to vote is not restricted by race, sex, belief, wealth, or social status. |
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The concept of universal suffrage requires the right to vote to be granted to all its residents. |
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There were few nations in the world that had a similar level of suffrage for white males at this time. |
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From then until 1916, all Western states legalized women suffrage, but few Eastern states followed suit. |
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In 1931, the Second Spanish Republic allowed women the right of passive suffrage with three women being elected. |
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During a discussion on extending women's right to active suffrage, the Radical Socialist Victoria Kent confronted the Radical Clara Campoamor. |
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It engaged in many political campaigns concerning women's health, women's suffrage and pacifism. |
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A member of the Liberal Party, he was also the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage. |
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Political debates, however, have centred themselves predominately on universal suffrage and education reform. |
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Aside from clashes over a range of social, welfare, labour and economic policies, the most contentious topic has been universal suffrage. |
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In 1920, the women's rights movement won passage of a constitutional amendment granting women's suffrage. |
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Other issues of the period included women's suffrage and the Irish Home Rule movement. |
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The most radical elements proposed universal manhood suffrage and the reorganisation of parliamentary constituencies. |
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The empire had a parliament called the Reichstag, which was elected by universal male suffrage. |
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Besides universal suffrage, it permitted the development of political parties. |
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Universal suffrage was significantly diluted by the gross overrepresentation of rural areas from the 1890s onward. |
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There was universal male suffrage for the Reichstag, however legislation would have to pass both houses. |
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Before universal suffrage, adopted as part of Bermuda's Constitution in 1967, voting was dependent on a certain level of property ownership. |
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Since the advent of universal suffrage, the differences between county and borough constituencies are slight. |
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Since 1962, the French president has been elected by universal suffrage within France. |
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He also advocated extended suffrage, equality before the law, and religious tolerance. |
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First, suffrage was the most generous in the world, with every man allowed to vote who owned a certain amount of property. |
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In addition, many art school students and staff were involved in women's suffrage. |
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The Chartists gathered significant numbers around the People's Charter of 1838, which demanded the extension of suffrage to all male adults. |
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There is universal suffrage for adults over 18 years of age, with a secret ballot for all elected offices. |
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They successfully campaigned for women's right to education, women's suffrage, the right to work, and other gender equality policies. |
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Women's suffrage was guaranteed with an amendment to the 1952 Constitution. |
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The Government of Ghana is elected by universal suffrage after every four years. |
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Each department elects its own authorities through a universal suffrage system. |
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This party, led by Guy Rozemont, bettered its position in 1953, and, on the strength of the election results, demanded universal suffrage. |
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He designated a national language and introduced women's suffrage and land reform. |
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In 1848 he voted for Hume's household suffrage motion, and introduced a bill for the repeal of the Game Laws. |
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Members might be chosen through a direct election under universal suffrage, an indirect election, or another form of suffrage. |
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Among the topics that caused debate among Liberals were British imperialism, the union of Great Britain and Ireland, and female suffrage. |
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Asquith belatedly came around to support women's suffrage in 1917, by which time he was out of office. |
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The right to run for office is sometimes called candidate eligibility, and the combination of both rights is sometimes called full suffrage. |
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In English, these are sometimes called active suffrage and passive suffrage. |
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Universal suffrage consists of the right to vote without restriction due to sex, race, social status, education level, or wealth. |
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The 1840 constitution of the Kingdom of Hawai'i granted universal suffrage to all male and female adults. |
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Where compulsory suffrage exists, those who are eligible to vote are required by law to do so. |
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In 1840, the Kingdom of Hawai'i adopted full suffrage to all adults, including women, but in 1852 rescinded female voting. |
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February 1915 Belle Case La Follette editorializes on the suffrage movement. |
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The churchyard is the location of the grave of Emily Wilding Davison, a lady with strong North Eastern roots who sacrificed her life for the Suffrage movement. |
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Every miracle is the suffrage of Heaven to the truth of a doctrine. |
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The government soon backed down, and passed male universal suffrage but reduced its impact by creating plural votes based on wealth, education and age. |
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In 1893 the government rejected a proposal for universal male suffrage. |
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The next large scale general strike took place over half a century later in Belgium, in an effort to force the government to grant universal suffrage to the people. |
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In 1918, all men over 21 and women over 30 won the right to vote, and in 1928 all women over 21 won the right to vote resulting in universal suffrage. |
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The later one introduced universal suffrage for property owners. |
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Women's suffrage is, by definition, the right of women to vote. |
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He need not reside in a room, but only in a bunk, and a bunk need not be rated for the relief of the poor. We talk about manhood suffrage, but what about groomhood suffrage? |
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However, suffrage applies equally to referenda and initiatives. |
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It is hard to follow the kinks of woman suffrage ratiocination. |
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The Equal Franchise Act 1928 lowered the minimum age for women to vote from 30 to 21, making men and women equal in terms of suffrage for the first time. |
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Colonial Parliaments introduced certain reforms such as secret ballots and female suffrage, which were not to occur in Britain until many years later. |
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The next day, the Prussian delegate to the Frankfurt assembly presented a plan calling for a national constitution, a directly elected national Diet, and universal suffrage. |
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For example, the universal suffrage was, in practice, virtually meaningless, since the tsar did not have to approve any of the laws adopted by the Finnish parliament. |
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In 1906, universal suffrage was adopted in the Grand Duchy of Finland. |
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She pushed Congress to enact women's suffrage in 1947, and developed an unprecedented social assistance to the most vulnerable sectors of society. |
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It weakened the veto power of Lords, blocked woman suffrage. |
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In 1911, the Women's Freedom League, a suffragette organisation campaigning for female suffrage in the United Kingdom, organised a boycott of the census. |
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Weakened, they were unable to prevent the passage of more comprehensive electoral reforms in 1867, 1884, 1918 and 1928 when universal equal suffrage was established. |
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In particular, the Chartist movement, which demanded universal suffrage for men, equally sized electoral districts, and voting by secret ballot, gained a widespread following. |
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Plans to expand the voting population had begun to appear in the 2000s, and political figures liaised with the government to provide universal suffrage. |
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Such hoards would necessitate a wealthy owner, and their supposed existence ignores the command structure of a pirate vessel, in which the crew often served by free suffrage. |
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With their insistence on independent local bodies, they became important in many social reform movements, including abolitionism, temperance, and women's suffrage. |
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Since 1979, however, MEPs have been elected by direct universal suffrage. |
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Democratic schools practice and support universal suffrage in school, which allows a vote to every member of the school, including students and staff. |
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Denmark is a representative democracy with universal suffrage. |
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States have granted and revoked universal suffrage at various times. |
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It is worth noting that countries that took a long time to adopt women's suffrage had previously often been pioneers in granting universal male suffrage. |
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The term active suffrage is sometimes used for the right to vote, passive suffrage for the right to run for office, and full suffrage for the combination of both. |
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Historians generally argue that the first stage of the militant suffragette movement under the Pankhursts in 1906 had a dramatic mobilising effect on the suffrage movement. |
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Suffragist is a more general term for members of the suffrage movement. |
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It was not until 1867 that urban working men were admitted to the franchise under the Reform Act 1867, and not until 1918 that full manhood suffrage was achieved. |
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Suffrage describes not only the legal right to vote, but also the practical question of whether a question will be put to a vote. |
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As with women's suffrage, racial equality, and malapportionment, the equal rights of all voters were not always a part of our national experience. |
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The Levellers were a political movement during the English Civil War that emphasised popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance. |
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Indeed, it is being erroneously taken for granted that this Suffrage foolery is a kind of game between the police and the fooligans. |
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Suffrage is universal for people age 18 and older, but only Muslims may hold elected office. |
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Suffrage is granted to qualifying citizens once they have reached the voting age. |
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Suffrage is often conceived in terms of elections for representatives. |
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Suffrage may therefore be limited, but can still be universal. |
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The democratic movement of the late 19th century, unifying liberals and social democrats, particularly in northern Europe, used the slogan Equal and Common Suffrage. |
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