From Colonial days onward, Turner argued, blustery demands for fuller political participation — for local governance, more frequent elections, and broader suffrage — came, always, from frontier settlers chafing at the authority of Eastern élites.
The rebels fled the state when the state militia marched against them, but the incident led to broader suffrage in Rhode Island.
In Pennsylvania, the radicals secured broad suffrage and a unicameral legislature.
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.
July 12 , 1852Buenos Aires, Argentina July 3 , 1933Buenos Aires, Argentina 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 particular, he stood for the rule of law, parliamentary government, universal suffrage, a broad range of civil freedoms, the expansion of popular education, and land reform.
Amid broad calls for universal suffrage to be implemented in the city, 223,000 people participated, despite a cyberattack that disabled a voting app for smartphones developed by the university.
At the National Liberty Convention, held June 14 15 in Buffalo, New York, Smith gave a major address, including in his speech a demand for "universal suffrage in its broadest sense, females as well as males being entitled to vote".
Rubino offered that the fire, in which a hundred and forty-six mostly female Jewish and Italian immigrants died, was "the single most important event in the history of American reform," because it led to rules about workplace safety, fortified the labor movement, helped usher in universal suffrage, and created a broader awareness of the conditions faced by immigrants.
Representative John Bingham, the primary author of the Fourteenth Amendment, pushed for a wide-ranging ban on suffrage limitations, but a broader proposal banning voter restriction on the basis of "race, color, nativity, property, education, or religious beliefs" was rejected.
Having a broad, popular base, it championed direct suffrage and the restoration of municipal elections.
