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universal suffrage

NOUN
  1. suffrage for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country

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  • The President has dissolved the Assembly and appealed to the people and the army; he establishes universal suffrage, and has arrested his political opponents.
  • February 25th, 2009 at 12: 32 pm about blum: I believe Matt chose the right one: under the fourth republic, the “president du conseil” was sole head of government, elected by universal suffrage (ok, minus the women), which is more impressive for a minority and in light of the not insignificant antisemitism of the time. Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Car Invention Myth
  • It is the significance of laws guaranteeing free speech, universal suffrage, and equality before the law.
  • As political goals go, universal suffrage is pretty concrete and non-fictional. Matthew Yglesias » George Will’s Odd Aversion to Democracy
  • The granting of universal suffrage in 1931 did not immediately undermine their position.
  • The difference is that all of us today can play a direct role in choosing our leader thanks to universal suffrage. Times, Sunday Times
  • Political parties formed the cornerstone of representative systems long before universal suffrage. The Times Literary Supplement
  • If the Magyars talk of introducing universal suffrage, they want to extend it to Magyar electors, and on one condition only, viz. that all the candidates shall be of _Magyar_ nationality, or, as the Hungarian Premier, Count Esterhazy, put it, "democracy in Hungary can only be a Magyar democracy" -- that is, a system utterly at variance with the principles of justice. Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty
  • Franco eliminated universal suffrage and viewed any criticism of the regime as treason.
  • He criticised him for downplaying the importance of public opinion about wanting to see universal suffrage in 2007.
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