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• Legislative authority is now vested in a unicameral National Congress, with 100 members elected for five years by universal adult suffrage.
• They also declared that the president of the republic should be elected by universal suffrage.
• The final programmes will engagingly escort us to the present day, via a coin defaced by Suffragettes, a plate from the Russian revolution, and a credit card, to the final object. A History of the World in 100 Objects is Radio 4 at its best
• It consisted of six points: universal male suffrage, vote by ballot, equal representation, abolition of the property qualification to sit in Parliament and payment of Members of Parliament.
• As a moral matter, however, anything other than universal suffrage is incompatible with the fundamental values underlying its creation: the just powers of government by consent. The Volokh Conspiracy » Violent Misdemeanants, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Right to Vote
• The unicameral legislature, the National Assembly, is also elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage.
• The monuments and statues throughout the country commemorate generals, judges and politicians, rather than socialists, strikers or suffragettes.
• In the spring of 1848 the radical press, political clubs, and the National Guard bubbled with activity in Paris and provincial cities as elections under universal manhood suffrage to the Constituent Assembly approached.
• Their manner was to grant naturalization (which they called jus civitatis [the right of citizenship]), and to grant it in the highest degree; that is, not only jus commercii [the right to commercial trade], jus connubii [the right to intermarry], jus hæreditatis [the right of inheritance]; but also jus suffragii [the right of suffrage], and jus honorum [the right of holding office]. XXIX. Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
• Trinidad was granted universal adult suffrage in 1945.