Sentence examples for suffrage among from inspiring English sources

And boy, is his language passionate: The right of equal suffrage among the States is another exceptionable part of the Confederation.

Instead, Kuwait's emir dissolved the National Assembly, the only democratically elected parliament (albeit with limited suffrage) among the Gulf's Arab states, and called an election for July.Kuwaitis are taken aback: the last time parliament was dissolved was in 1986.

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.

Even Lucretia Mott, who organized the Seneca Falls Convention with Stanton, begged Stanton not to include women's suffrage among the resolutions.

Most European liberals in the Vormärz sought unification under nationalist principles, promoted the transition to capitalism, sought the expansion of male suffrage, among other issues.

Many from that community were immersed in the abolition movement, public health measures, the settlement house movement, the establishment of adoption agencies, the temperance movement, improvement of schools, enforced education for the poor, women's suffrage, among others -- and ultimately, the Civil Rights Movement.

It has acquired stockings with pro-suffrage mottos, among other oddities, and cartoons of hags labeled "suffragettes".

Some among the suffrage movement based their arguments for women suffrage, and against the enfranchisement of blacks, on racist grounds.

During the nineteenth and early twentieth century, feminist movements proliferated in Europe and USA in order to vindicate the rights of women both in the workplace and political issues, such as women's suffrage and birth policies, among others.

Long after the war she aided the cause of women's suffrage, working with Susan B. Anthony, among others.

While the front supports the introduction of universal suffrage, there remains some ambivalence among its leaders about the virtues of majority rule.