But immigrant suffrage initiatives were defeated at the polls in San Francisco and Portland, Maine.
Immigrant and voting-rights advocates see non-citizen suffrage as a matter of taxpayer fairness and civic engagement.
IR You imply that in 1894 South Australia was the first place with female suffrage.
It was natural for Annie Belcher and her daughter, then a teenager, to support women's suffrage.
Less moved by political freedom, he worried that mass suffrage would lead to instability.
Their comparative success might confirm fears the government already has about its promise to introduce universal suffrage in 2017.
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But some scholars see room for improvement at the local level, even without yet tackling the question of universal suffrage.
Experiments launched under Mr Zhao with the election of village chiefs by universal suffrage have been extended throughout the countryside.
Most guarantee or extend the operation of democracy (such as women's suffrage), rather than defend social norms (such as Prohibition).
He believed in women's suffrage, free speech, equal opportunity and big business.
We also know that the defiant, can-do spirit that moved millions to seek suffrage is what runs through the veins of American history.
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Residents increasingly feel that they are being strung along with stall tactics because Beijing has no intention of honoring its commitment to universal suffrage.
It was written - the melody was written by Mimi Farina and the words were written by a John Oppenheim in 1920s to support the suffrage movement.
Israel is a vibrant, Western-style democracy, with universal suffrage, freedom of the press and freedom of religion supporting Israel does not contradict the freedom agenda.
Mrs Pankhurst also brought her daughters up to fight for women's rights, and the whole family helped develop the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.
The Basic Law allows for the possibility no more than that of universal suffrage for both the legislature and for the post of chief executive after 2007.
It is the hall which saw the earliest campaigns against the protectionist Corn Laws (hence the name Free Trade Hall) as well as for women's suffrage.
Fortunately or unfortunately, they are quite incompatible with the theocratic ones: the popular sovereignty implicit in universal suffrage is completely at odds with the sovereignty of God.
The ban is an anachronism: it dates back to the days before universal suffrage, when felons forfeited their property, ownership of which was a condition for voting.
The Emir of Kuwait has backed female suffrage in the face of strong opposition from tribal and Islamist factions in parliament, the BBC's Gulf correspondent Julia Wheeler reports.
Yet Australians are proud of their democratic inheritance: the world's first parliamentary elections by secret ballot (in Victoria in 1856), female suffrage (in South Australia in 1894) and so on.
They are thereby ineligible for government jobs, or suffrage.
The "Downton" characters bear witness to many innovations of the day: the telephone, women's suffrage, the cocktail party, the toaster and the idea that one can choose one's own path in life, regardless of birth.
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Only six countries out of 43 then recognised as nation states had something that began to deserve the name, and even there the suffrage was invariably limited, with some men and all women excluded.
Since only one-third of the 60 seats are elected through geographical constituencies and universal suffrage, it does not matter to the government that since elections last May these have been held overwhelmingly by democrats.
The importance of having a feminist space particularly for schooling was more pronounced 100 years ago, when women still lacked basic suffrage rights in the United States, let alone access to higher education.
As first lady, Maria Eva Duarte de Peron championed the rights of the poor, pushed for more social programs and argued for women's suffrage, drawing criticism from members of Argentina's political establishment and its upper class.
It was considered impolite for women to play an instrument in public, and yet in the teens around the time of the suffrage movement, women formed in America all-female, all-saxophone bands of four, eight, 12, 20 saxophones.
Western diplomats are hopeful that he may be brought to see that an imperfect election is better than none, but his spokesmen still insist that it is the government's responsibility to provide the security necessary for full suffrage.
During his years in local and state politics, Coolidge did take a number of forward-looking positions: he favored woman suffrage, voted for a minimum wage, and, as a Yankee able to get his share of the burgeoning Irish-Catholic vote, was generally sympathetic to immigration.
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