I have been boycotting classes since 28 September because this is all we can do to obtain universal suffrage".
He warned that "[m]en of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people".
Back in America, "Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may by intrigue, by corruption or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests of the people," Madison feared.8 There would be "little avail to the people... if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood".
Mr Tsang said this marked "a timetable for obtaining universal suffrage".
He was elected, though the Democrats alleged fraud: Whig supporters, to obtain the vote at a time when the state had a restrictive property qualification for suffrage, acquired licenses for carriages.
There's never been a more important time to be a woman, except maybe during the women's suffrage period, pictured above, when women were fighting for basic rights to be considered equal as men and to obtain the right to vote.
Here are some ways to strike a chord: Tell or show them how the right to vote (suffrage) was obtained.
In 1903 the women's suffrage movement split dramatically over the issue of the parliamentary vote, some pursuing the vote as merely one item on a long list of political and extra-political reforms and others concentrating on the single aim of obtaining the vote.
In 1869 another organization, the American Woman Suffrage Association, was founded by Lucy Stone with the aim of securing woman suffrage by obtaining amendments to that effect in the constitutions of the various states.
The two key woman suffrage leaders of the second half of the 19th century -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony -- failed to obtain votes for women and died disappointed in 1902 and 1906.
