Sentence examples for question of suffrage from inspiring English sources

The question of suffrage was raised, obviously, during the revolution, and again in 1848, and again in 1870 — whenever France got rid of a king or an emperor, French men would dust off their "neutral" concept of liberty, equality, and fraternity in a one-and-indivisible republic, and then decide, with inscrutable illogic, that the indivisible was male.

The question of suffrage was raised, obviously, during the revolution, and again in 1848, and again in 1870 whenever France got rid of a king or an emperor, French men would dust off their "neutral" concept of liberty, equality, and fraternity in a one-and-indivisible republic, and then decide, with inscrutable illogic, that the indivisible was male.

All these people have had to be moved in order to bring enough pressure to bear upon the government to compel them to deal with the question of woman suffrage.

The party, he says, now believes that eruptions of local discontent are best solved by a combination of force paying off demonstrators.But some scholars see room for improvement at the local level, even without yet tackling the question of universal suffrage.

At a 1914 rally he stated "Taxation without representation is tyranny ... [The] purpose of this meeting ... is to shock the people of Memphis into a realization that the question of equal suffrage is not child's play".

Jane developed an interest in the question of women's suffrage after attending a conference in London, in 1871.

It is raising the question of whether we want European suffrage.

There is scarcely any point in female suffrage (the burning question of the day) where it is so little wanted.

She was reelected president regularly until 1879, when she lost to Willard, with whom she had split over the question of taking up the cause of woman suffrage in addition to temperance.

Ha! Take that, royal enemy of suffrage".

A second deeply rooted principle is the right of suffrage.