manhood suffrage
Britishnoun
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Witness all the Reform Acts in 19th Century Britain and the decision of French liberals in 1848 to approve universal manhood suffrage.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2023
Its secondary goals, the “in the meantime” activities, were focused on securing universal manhood suffrage and trying to shore up the quality of life of workers.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
He believed that universal manhood suffrage should and would lead to a government capable of implementing necessary economic changes, primarily by guaranteeing work for all citizens.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
They tried, instead, to reform the election laws so that Japan's universal manhood suffrage would be supplanted by votes for no one except family heads and military reservists.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Constitutional Law further provided that the deputies should be elected to the Chamber for four years by direct manhood suffrage, which had been enjoyed in France ever since 1848.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
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