According to Shaw, there would have been 211 more female members if woman suffrage had been a complete success.
The stakes are even higher because if universal suffrage is not introduced for the election of the chief executive, it will not be introduced for the subsequent election of LegCo members.
Inspired by political theorists, ancient and modern, he declared that "power naturally and necessarily follows property," adding that property must remain diffused if widespread suffrage is to be safely maintained.
Only a directly elected chief executive would have the mandate to govern effectively, many people say; even pro-Beijing figures such as Jasper Tsang, president of Hong Kong's parliament, have warned that the territory will become "ungovernable" if universal suffrage is not introduced in 2017.
Can kids really do worse if given suffrage?
If immigrant suffrage were revived, it admittedly would not be a silver bullet that solves every social problem in our city--or any city.
Because why did we fight so hard for suffrage if we're not even going to vote?
"So the two together — the June 4 massacre and Hong Kong's desire for universal suffrage — if Beijing would do something to resolve these things I think many Hong Kong people would be happy to be a Chinese living in Hong Kong under 'one country, two systems,' and that would be good for Hong Kong, and good for the rest of the country".
That said, here are some of the hot and bodacious booth babes of CEATEC 2007 showing their gams to a bunch of gimlet-eyed sararimen who wouldn't know women's suffrage if it bit them on the keister.
She was active in the National Woman Suffrage Association (after 1890 the National American Woman Suffrage Association [NAWSA]), but her energy, ambition, and attractiveness, as well as her interest in reforms other than suffrage, aroused suspicion if not actual hostility on the part of Susan B. Anthony.
