Sentence examples for democratic franchise from inspiring English sources

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, "Corporate Governance and the Expansion of the Democratic Franchise: Beyond Cross-Country Regressions," Scandinavian Economic History Review 64 (issue 2, 2016): 103-12016

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, "Corporate Governance and the Expansion of the Democratic Franchise: Beyond Cross-Country Regressions," Scandinavian Economic History Review 64 (issue 2, 2016): 103-2016

Although Kaufman argues the merits of democratic franchise, she leaves open-ended the possibility that in some limited circumstances, people could thrive under non-capitalist economies, despite non-democratic forms of government.

Leaving aside voting rights for overseas Indians, much needs to be done to make it easier for the far larger group of Indians who migrate from one state to another to exercise their democratic franchise.

Damian Allen, executive director of children and family services at Knowsley council, said that schools had to remain subject to the "local democratic franchise, as opposed to non-elected groups".

On March 3, 1905, he reluctantly agreed to create a national representative assembly, or Duma, with consultative powers, and by the manifesto of October 30 he promised a constitutional regime under which no law was to take effect without the Duma's consent, as well as a democratic franchise and civil liberties.

Thus, laws have been enacted that seek to prevent discrimination from locking women and minority groups out of the democratic process; the franchise has been extended to all groups, including women, minorities, and 18-year-olds; and government bodies such as courts and administrative agencies enforce legislation against groups considered to be too large or monopolistic.

(As the New York Times reported in the wake of election 2016, no significant evidence of voter fraud of any sort was found). This fake issue has, however, been used as a smokescreen for implementing voting restrictions that inhibit poor people, students, and minorities, who usually vote Democratic, from exercising their franchise.

In fairness, those states were not fully democratic because they denied the franchise to African-Americans.

Both policies affect the franchise and the democratic deficit (Hammar, 1990), reflecting the principles of 'territorial inclusion' (Bauböck, 2005b) and European principles of integration, according to the Council of Europe and European Commission.1 In contrast, the restriction of these rights would reflect an 'ethnic nationalist' or 'exclusionist' approach (Bauböck, 2005a).

There is a long history of democratically elected governments around the world undermining the democratic process through restrictions on the franchise, a risk that the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution was designed to prevent.