9 sentences with “voting”

The voting age was set at 20.

While it was not always a simple case of cause and effect, there is no doubt that women's participation in the war effort had a direct link to voting rights after the war.

Also, although voting rights existed for some male citizens in most nations by 1900 (universal suffrage for men generally only came about after World War I), conflicts over citizenship itself remained.

There would be no property restrictions on voting - although women remained disenfranchised, as everywhere else - and never again would a monarch occupy the throne of France simply because of his dynastic birth.

The key question was whether the king would allow voting according to the number of representatives, which would give the Third Estate a clear majority, or whether he would insist on the old model in which the clergy and nobility dominated.

In return, the patron expected political support from his clients by voting as indicated in the Centurion or Plebeian Assembly, influencing other votes and blocking political rivals. In the same way, patrons who shared a patron were expected to help each other.

The result in the spring of 1789 was a surprisingly democratic election, with the majority of the male population voting for delegates to the Estates General. Many hoped that the meeting would result in real intervention in a number of perceived injustices, not just more money for the state.

In turn, voting was by estates, not by proportional representation, and the first and second estates generally joined together to outvote the third. Thus, the small minority of the population consisting of nobles and clerics could always outvote the majority of the population in this traditional voting system.

However, Rome did not punish the cities after it had defeated them. Instead, it offered them citizenship in its republic (albeit without voting rights) in exchange for pledges of loyalty and troops during the war, a very important precedent because it meant that with each victory, Rome could potentially expand its military might.