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1. suffrage – by which the stupid people elect his
2. Still, it took our own leaders a long time to resolve the issues of slavery and suffrage
3. “The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate
4. ment sped up by the introduction of universal suffrage would be
5. The government of the Global Council is elected by direct suffrage every five years and is headed by the Chief Global Administrator, who in turn is assisted by a council of regional and specialist administrators
6. In my society, you rise strictly on merit, while our administrators are elected through universal suffrage by all our citizens
7. Whatever happened here today, Klingon suffrage was about to get a promotion
8. Popular insurrections and riots shook in succession Vienna, Venice, Berlin, Milan, Munich and Prague, while the provisional French government publicly proclaimed the abolition of the death penalty and of slavery, the creation of national workshops in order to combat the widespread unemployment and the adoption of universal male suffrage
9. " Will anyone tell me there is no inward danger, when the real presence, and the Romish confessional, and ecclesiastical lawlessness, and Home Rule, are quietly tolerated on one side, and the atonement, and Christ's divinity, and the inspiration of Scripture, and the reality of miracles, are coolly thrown overboard on the other? Will anyone tell me there is no outward danger, when infidels, Papists, and Dissenters are hungering and thirsting after the destruction of the Establishment, and compassing sea and land to accomplish their ends?�What Z no danger, when myriads of our working classes never enter the walls of our Church, and would not raise a finger to keep her alive, while by household suffrage they have got all power into their hands! What! no danger, when the Irish Church has been disestablished, the Act of Union has been trampled underfoot, Protestant endowments have been handed over to Papists, the thin edge of the wedge for severing Church and State has been let in, and the statesman who did all this is still alive, and thought by many to be infallible
10. This was, is, and forever will be our confusion, as long as we believe the end of politics is equal suffrage: democracy = voting = casting an opinion = judging = for or against = won or lost = buy or boycott = support or protest = love it or leave it = conflict = democracy
11. '--they would never have lent their brutal suffrage to the proscription list of Robespierre
12. “The Grounds Walkers have inhabited humans whose actions have brought about great change, such as the suffrage movement and the civil rights movements,” Meana continues
13. It was from Miss Ashton, inviting us to a non-partisan suffrage evening at her studio in her home, to be followed by a dance
14. When people of the prominence of the Ashtons take up suffrage and make special requests to have certain persons come to a thing like that, they can hardly refuse
15. In fact, no one commits himself to anything by being present, whereas, absence might mean hostility, and there are lots of the women in the organization that believe in suffrage, now
16. He made no comment on the case, but I knew he had in mind some plan or other for the next move and that it would probably involve something at the suffrage meeting at Miss Ashton's that evening
17. Nothing else was talked about at the suffrage reception at Miss Ashton's that evening, not even suffrage, as much as the strange fate that seemed to have befallen Murtha
18. Instantly, the scene transformed itself from a suffrage meeting to a social function that was unique
19. Margaret and I had always been friends--but I think Carton and this sort of thing,"--he waved his hand I imagined at the suffrage dancers--"have brought us to the parting of the ways
20. I am afraid this will do great harm to the cause of reform and through it to the woman suffrage cause which made me cast myself in with the League
21. Only the last week one poll ordered by five newspapers returned the verdict that more than sixty-two per cent of the people it asked supported universal suffrage the following year
22. In other Chinese newspapers the Director of the Hong Kong Branch of the New China News Agency (NCNA) declined to comment on the question of whether there should be universal suffrage in 1998
23. Women’s Suffrage: the right of women to vote
24. The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate
25. Messages of condolence and sympathy are being hourly received from all parts of the different continents and the sovereign pontiff has been graciously pleased to decree that a special missa pro defunctis shall be celebrated simultaneously by the ordinaries of each and every cathedral church of all the episcopal dioceses subject to the spiritual authority of the Holy See in suffrage of the souls of those faithful departed who have been so unexpectedly called away from our midst
26. Britain and America only conceded female suffrage after the First World War, French women didn’t get the vote until 1944, and Swiss women had to wait until the 1970s
27. New Zealand had already granted female suffrage and Finland followed suit in 1907, but most countries still held back
28. That which universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty cannot be undone by the street
29. The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it is capable
30. Universal suffrage has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms
31. It—that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, terror, misunderstanding, the unknown—had facing it the Constituent Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the Marseillaise
32. The power of the State is based upon tradition, upon science, upon popular suffrage, upon brute force, upon everything except upon the Church
33. All methods employed, either of divine sanction, or of election, or of heredity, or of suffrage, or of assemblies, or of parliaments, or of senates, have proved ineffective
34. So distinguished a mark of confidence, proceeding from the deliberate and tranquil suffrage of a free and virtuous nation, would, under any circumstances, have commanded my gratitude and devotion, as well as filled me with an awful sense of the trust to be assumed
35. Randolph, in combating the principle of universal suffrage, said that it was impossible for the gentleman himself, (alluding to Mr
36. For the information of the people who are called on to decide the right of suffrage by the Governor's proclamation, we have inserted below that part of the law which defines the qualification as well of the Representative as of the voter