Sentence examples for suffrage protection from inspiring English sources

The liberals tended to be the most conservative party on economic issues and favoured a restricted electorate; the progressives were vigorously democratic in outlook, as were the socialists, who also favoured universal suffrage, protection of the right to strike, labour legislation, and other welfare measures.

Although originally formed to represent the interests of farmers, the organization has advocated a variety of goals, including women's suffrage, rural electrification, protection of water resources, and universal telephone service.

Women marched down Manhattan for better pay and a shorter workday -- and in addition they called for woman suffrage and better protection against child labor.

The original progressives gave us women's suffrage and consumer protections; the civil rights movement desegregated our schools and restaurants; the conservatives introduced still controversial but enduring ideas like school choice and supply-side economics.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, for example, third parties led the way in the abolition of slavery, the women's suffrage movements and protections for farmers, workers and consumers.

We owe them not equality (you don't demand suffrage, I notice) but protection.

The "Workies" pressed for universal male suffrage, equal educational opportunities, protection from debtor imprisonment and compulsory service in the militia, and greater financial security and shorter working hours.

"Without the right of suffrage, we are without protection and liable to Combinations of outrage," Washington, D.C., "Colored Citizens" wrote in December 1865.

Many ideas that we take for granted today -- Social Security, the minimum wage, women's suffrage, child labor laws, consumer protection laws, the progressive income tax, workers' right to form unions, public works programs to create jobs for the unemployed, and Medicare -- were first espoused by American socialists.

Anthony lobbied for female suffrage, equal gender pay, and protection of property for women who resided in Washington D.C.

In the early 1900s, socialists led the movements for women's suffrage, child labor laws, consumer protection laws and the progressive income tax.