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right to vote
1. We need to recall that, in the classical democracy of Athens, approximately one-third of the inhabitants of that city-state were slaves and women, and not being citizens, did not have the right to vote
2. Regrettably our Nationalists soon proved to the world that they had no inbuilt sense of fairness, especially toward their black servants who had protested: "give me the right to vote on the basis of one man one vote since I am also born here and lived here all my life—in fact I am a South African even if I am black!" But the Afrikaner flatly refused, and tried all sorts of other nonsense to like Homelands, and oppressive laws to keep themselves in power
3. Such principles, as they relate to Equal (Civil) Rights, for example, are recognized by social and political conventions allowing every individual, who is legally registered, for example, the right to vote or a licensed driver the right to own or operate an automobile or a prospective home buyer, with sufficient capital or credit, the right to purchase a house or a condo or whatever falls within his or her means
4. women the right to vote
5. He had become a proud American citizen in the spring of 1967, and now that he was prepared to exercise his precious right to vote, he had an opportunity to meet, face to face, alone, the candidate of his choice… “What an initiation to the exercise of democracy…”, Roger thought
6. “I believe that the right to vote and the obligation to count all the votes should be promoted not just in the Middle East, but in the
7. students have been “denied an equal Right to vote
8. The right to vote was based on race, religion, ownership of property, and education
9. By the end of 1920, amendments to the Constitution gave all people the right to vote, which Ella endorsed
10. I believe everyone should have the right to vote, but not after you leave the earth
11. “No, it isn’t, Admiral, at least not for African-Americans, Japanese-Americans, native Indian-Americans and many other racial groups who don’t have the right to vote or, in the case of the Japanese-Americans not born in the United States, who don’t even have the right to become legally American citizens
12. of speech, freedom of the press, security, the right to vote and the other laws of the land
13. However most others have been almost peaceful: The reinstatement of Charles II with limited powers; the removal of Catholic James II and his replacement with Protestant William and Mary, the granting of the right to vote to women and so on
14. Could you imagine a man who doesn't want to give farmers the right to vote associating with a demonologist?"
15. The women are very much aware of this corruption of the process of a "secret ballot" and it heightens their desire to have the right to vote as they believe that they would refuse en masse to comply with despotic demands such as those of the mill owners," Olin informed him without realizing that it would be another 66 years before the ladies would have the lawful ability to test their theory
16. His subjects did not have any right to vote, or to uphold, or enforce the civil code he had written for them
17. Now the entire world of humans will not be happy until every person in every Nation has the right to vote
18. For thousands of years; poor peasants lived happily as poor peasants: because the right to vote had not been invented yet
19. Today: every political power-group on Earth has turned the right to vote into a powerless joke by fighting against each other, and by corrupting the system every way they possibly can
20. Its constitution based upon only land owners having the right to vote, with women having no right to vote and no say in the running of the nation
21. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State
22. This amendment, ratified in 1920, finally gave women the right to vote in America
23. Any trickery depriving American citizens of their constitutional right to vote should be exposed and vigorously opposed
24. Until the Twenty-sixth Amendment was passed in 1971, it was possible for young people to join the military and be injured or killed without having the right to vote
25. afterwards, this syllogism: that it was necessary for the public good to get rid of the marshal of the province; that to get rid of the marshal it was necessary to have a majority of votes; that to get a majority of votes it was necessary to secure Flerov’s right to vote; that to secure the recognition of Flerov’s right to vote they must decide on the interpretation to be put on the act
26. allowed the right to vote, and the new party had conquered
27. The negroes had not yet been given the right to vote but the North was determined that they should vote and equally determined that their vote should be friendly to the North
28. An analogous thing could be done by issuing separate certificates for the right to receive dividends (for a limited or unlimited period), or the right to share in the proceeds of sale or liquidation of the enterprise, or the right to vote the shares
29. An important right for preferred stocks that usually does not exist is the right to vote separately as a class on all matters
30. But Corporate America would not work at all unless many activities continued to be coercive; security holders may get a right to vote (which vote may be pro forma and meaningless), but the security holders are coerced into going along whether they like it or not once a requisite vote has taken place
31. Women were active in all the nationalist and revolutionary groups, and in Western countries they were actively campaigning for the right to vote
32. Fisk moved to strike out the words in the fifth section of the bill, which makes it necessary for persons to be in possession of a freehold to have a right to vote
