Universal suffrage

The European Parliament is made up of 626 deputies who are elected by direct universal suffrage every 5 years. It examines all proposals for European directives and regulations, which it may accept, modify, or refuse. It supervises the work of the European Commission, which it can dismiss with a motion of censure, and it votes the annual Community budget. 

In modem capitalist societies matters are more complicated, not only because of universal suffrage, but also because the main clas. [Pg.426]

At home, the regional committees established in 1915 focused on technical, labour, disciplinary, and security issues. These were also sensitive in a country that had held its first universal suffrage elections as recently as 1913, when Socialist groups (some of which were against the war) gained seats at the expense of the Liberals. ... 

Naden left Mason College in 1887, but unfortunately died in 1889, as her obituarist described "... after coming into the possession of a considerable fortune, she travelled throughout the Middle-East and South Asia. She contracted Indian demon-fever never completely recovered. During the last year, she lectured at Dartford on Women s Suffrage. 94(a) A bust of Naden overlooks the archives room of the University of Birmingham. 

The position of women in the University was uncertainly poised, and it was still very necessary to avoid adverse criticism, so no member of the women s colleges could join the W.S.P.U. [Women s Social and Political Union] — the Militant Suffragettes led by Christabel Pankhurst — but most of us belonged to the N.UW.S.S. [National Union of Women s Suffrage Societies] which pursued the same aims by nonviolent and more legitimate methods.44(b)... 

They were indeed to modify this programme of universal male suffrage and not all Levellers may have espoused it anjrway, but whatever its modifications from earlier on (texts 9, 12, 13) their proposal for a... 

Both association and integration come about by democratic processes. The free will as expressed in universal adult suffrage is deemed to be the right way to ensure that self-determination can happen. This is indeed the most important aspect. The full measure of self-government is achieved through democratic values such as free political institutions, equal rights of citizens, non-discrimination, equal opportunities for representation and participation at all level of government and public life, impartially conducted elections and no interference from the outside. Self-determination is inextricably linked to democracy as the former cannot come about without the latter. 

Ware, S. (1981). Beyond suffrage Women in the new deal. Mtilden, MA Harvard University Press. 

Germany unified under Kaiser Wilhelm I (King of Prussia) and Chancellor Bismarck. Universal manhood suffrage introduced for Reichstag elections. 

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