Sentence examples for expanded suffrage from inspiring English sources

Under great popular pressure, and working with support only from a minority, while leveraging the votes of the Radicals on the other side, Disraeli brought in a reform bill that greatly expanded suffrage among the men of the English working class.

The latter charter served as the frame of government until the Dorr Rebellion in 1842 (a crisis that occurred when advocates of expanded suffrage tried to overthrow the state government, resulting in the declaration of martial law) forced the writing of a constitution that year.

The new constitution of 1851 expanded suffrage for white males, but excluded blacks from suffrage.

Generally, center-right revolutionaries sought some kind of expanded suffrage within their states and potentially, a form of loose unification.

Only a little more than a hundred years earlier, in 1832, Parliament passed the Great Reform Act, which was intended to renovate the electoral system and expand suffrage.

Under the Electoral College, however, a state had no special incentive to expand suffrage -- each got a fixed number of electoral votes, regardless of how many citizens were allowed to vote.

Historically, states and cities have been the laboratories of democracy in expanding suffrage and voter access.

In the 1835 36 legislative session, he voted to expand suffrage to white males, whether landowners or not.

But progressives must also go on offense where we can to expand suffrage and make registering to vote and casting a ballot as easy as possible.

We have done so around key election issues before however, ranging from direct election of Senators, to expanding suffrage to women and 18 year olds while eliminating the poll tax.

Indeed, con-cons, often responding to U.S. Constitutional changes, have been a great force for expanding rights, including expanded white suffrage in the early 19th century, black suffrage in the late 19th century, and equal representation for urban citizens in the mid-20th century.