Sentence examples for suffrage without from inspiring English sources

Voting by mail in New York would both reduce the overall costs of our unworkable system and let New Yorkers exercise suffrage without suffering.

The Socilist deputy Francis Leenhardt provoked one of the tumults by declaring that "there can be no real Algerian universal suffrage without a preliminary cease-fire".

The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into five military districts and outlined how new governments, based on manhood suffrage without regard to race, were to be established.

He goes on to affirm, ungrudgingly, the importance of political parties as "a natural offspring of Freedom"; and he defends "an equal & universal right of suffrage" without property qualifications.

Hong Kong's Basic Law, the closest thing the territory has had to a constitution since Britain handed it over to China in 1997, limits the legislature's authority to act on important issues like introducing universal suffrage without Beijing's assent, but the legislature still has broad budgetary and other powers.

Persons standing in this predicament cannot be admitted to the right of suffrage, without running counter to all the principles on which that right is founded.

Hong Kong's campaigners want the 2017 elections for chief executive to be fully free and fair – conducted not just on the basis of universal suffrage, but without would-be candidates having to be vetted by Beijing.

There would not have been a 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, without the women's suffrage movement and its widespread demonstrations.

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

Blackwell called it "The Colorado Lesson", writing that "Woman suffrage can never be carried by a popular vote, without a political party behind it".

But without suffrage, it feels like our existence here is meaningless".