He also introduced wider suffrage (1913).
"The Levellers were the beginnings of the movement for wider suffrage in Britain.
But the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 brought a ferment of new ideas including the demand for wider male suffrage in Japan which the police and the patrician old guard viewed with alarm.
From 1820 to 1850, Jacksonian democracy began a set of reforms which included wider male suffrage; it led to the rise of the Second Party System of Democrats and Whigs as the dominant parties from 1828 to 1854.
Many of their ideas and programs were later incorporated into Bismarck's social programs (e.g., social insurance, education programs, and wider definitions of suffrage).
Liberals, republicans, and the newly emerging socialists demanded wider or even universal suffrage; but Guizot's conservatives supported the existing requirement that only persons who paid a tax of more than 200 francs (a considerable sum at the time) be allowed to cast ballots.
Their "radicalness" depended upon where they stood on the spectrum of male suffrage: the wider the definition of suffrage, the more radical.
Representative John Bingham, the primary author of the Fourteenth Amendment, pushed for a wide-ranging ban on suffrage limitations, but a broader proposal banning voter restriction on the basis of "race, color, nativity, property, education, or religious beliefs" was rejected.
By following Maud's story, Morgan's screenplay contextualises the fight for women's suffrage within the wider fight for women's rights.
The WFL reacted by ridiculing the "Spinster Suffrage party" and insisting that a wider assault on social inequity was required.
