Sentence examples for Popular suffrage from inspiring English sources

Isn't there a danger in having popular suffrage determine blockbusters?

For the first time since 1848 the voting was to be by direct popular suffrage.

The notion of opening to popular suffrage decisions that require a great deal of knowledge and discrimination is one that I don't understand.

Gen. de Gaulle, who was elected by a college of 80,000 grand electors, said that he "needs the direct confidence of the nation" in his proposal to elect future Presidents by popular suffrage.

Hipólito Irigoyen, Irigoyen also spelled Yrigoyen, (born July 12 , 1852 Buenos Aires, Arg. died July 3 , 1933 Buenos Aires), Argentine statesman who became his country's first president elected by broad popular suffrage.

In Brazil, as in Chile, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras, recent elections have ended with the victory of center-right presidents who believe in the market economy, popular suffrage and all the other values that the United States holds dear.

In these elections, the UANC won a majority in the new House of Assembly, with 51 of the 72 common roll seats (for which universal suffrage applied) and 67% of the popular vote.

Blackwell called it "The Colorado Lesson", writing that "Woman suffrage can never be carried by a popular vote, without a political party behind it".

Significant provisions included expanding the suffrage to all male citizens over the age of 21, which included freedmen; establishing a state public school system for the first time, with mandatory funding and attendance; and providing for judges to be elected by the General Assembly rather than by popular vote.

Over the past two decades, academics, reformist theologians and liberal clerics in Iran have been struggling to redefine traditional Islamic political philosophy in order to bring it in line with modern concepts of representative government, popular sovereignty, universal suffrage and religious pluralism.

This included an outpouring of radical political views from groups agitating for religious reforms, popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, common ownership and even proto women's rights — laying out democratic concepts and liberal ideas centuries ahead of the nation itself becoming a liberal democracy.