Interwar British society was, after all, barely democratic: universal adult suffrage was only granted in 1928.
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.
For the majority the revolution represented a political change in which a monarchy with a restricted franchise was to be replaced by a free democratic republic based upon universal suffrage; for the minority, including Blanc, it also heralded a social and economic transformation.
This electoral coalition would elect Juan Perón as President of the country in 1946 in what were arguably the first truly free and democratic elections with universal male suffrage.
The other six seats were to be filled by democratic elections based on universal suffrage.
Women leaders play a key role in India's democratic tradition which granted universal suffrage from its very first elections.
Sark remained "the last bastion of feudalism", as she proudly put it, until 2008, when universal suffrage and a democratic leadership were established.
In 1919 general suffrage produced a Social Democratic majority in the city council.
The result was the Malta meeting between the Patriotic Front and an Anglo-American team at which the Patriotic Front emphasized the need for accepting certain fundamental democratic principles, such as universal adult suffrage, free elections, restructuring of public service, and the disbanding of the Smith regime's illegal army.
The form of a democratic government makes the laws governing suffrage and voting fundamental.
Basic democratic rights and much less universal suffrage had been glaringly absent in the city's 150 years of colonial rule," reminds the daily.
