Sentence examples for extension of suffrage from inspiring English sources

This sweeping extension of suffrage did not come all at once, with American independence or the ratification of the Constitution.

With the growth of democracy, the extension of suffrage, and the rise of political parties, legislative apportionment became more complex.

According to the young man's trenchant analysis, the "extension of suffrage … can never mean anything for [working men] but extension of boozing".

The major reform achieved by his government was the extension of suffrage from 2 percent to 7 percent of the population (1882).

The redefinition of marriage represented "a continuation of New Zealand's proud human rights tradition", she said, pointing to the extension of suffrage to women in 1893 and the ongoing Treaty of Waitangi settlement process with the indigenous Maori.

Led by the Sicilian priest Don Luigi Sturzo, the Popolari espoused a program of local administrative autonomy, agricultural reform, recognition of the right of workers to organize, election (rather than appointment) of the Senate, and extension of suffrage to women.

He was the beneficiary of a rising tide of democratic sentiment, a trend that was aided by the admission of six new states to the Union, five of which had manhood suffrage, and by the extension of the suffrage laws by many of the older states.

The liberals, however, were at odds with the other secular parties on other issues, notably economic policies and the extension of the suffrage.

It was as much the huge loss of hundreds of thousands of young men in France, Belgium and Great Britain, not to speak of Russia and of course Germany, that advanced the cause of equality and the extension of the suffrage to women.

The most significant change adopted in the 1851 Constitution was elimination of the property requirement for voting, resulting in extension of the suffrage to all white males of voting age.

"If the civilization of the age calls for an extension of the suffrage, surely a government of the most virtuous educated men and women would better represent the whole and protect the interests of all than could the representation of either sex alone". .