Sentence examples for based on suffrage from inspiring English sources

In a Times piece he wrote in 1943, Gallup challenged this assumption directly: In a government based on suffrage the question is not whether the opinion of any one person is intelligent, but whether the collective judgment of all the people is intelligent.

In sub-Saharan Africa, competitive elections based on universal suffrage were introduced in three distinct periods.

The terms of the treaty also included increased popular participation in government, and five general elections based on adult suffrage were held between 1952 and 1974.

Despite its failure to deliver political stability, the Revolution of 1868 bequeathed to Spain the model of a modern secular state based on universal suffrage.

The argument about how the societies of the West should be organized has been settled in favor of a loose association of commercial republics that choose their governments through contested elections based on universal suffrage.

The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into five military districts and outlined how new governments, based on manhood suffrage without regard to race, were to be established.

Though, like Bentham, an advocate of representative democracy based on universal suffrage, Mill also made several proposals to temper the potential excesses of unconstrained majoritarian institutions.

The other six seats were to be filled by democratic elections based on universal suffrage.

The first local elections based on universal suffrage in the history of Finland were held during 17 28 December 1918, and the first parliamentary election after the Civil War on 3 March 1919.

This was to be based on a universal suffrage for the three classes rather than on the existing suffrage that favoured the upper classes.

Eric was a founding member of the People's Progressive party PPPP), which came to government in the country's first elections based on universal adult suffrage in April 1953.