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... Government of the Democracy in America Universal Suffrage Choice of the People, and instinctive Preferences of the American Democracy Causes which may partly correct the Tendencies of the Democracy Influence which the American Democracy has exercised on the Laws relating to Elections ...

— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al

... But the assertion is not even correct; as is shown by the circumstance that the Italian states remained as regularly free from tyrants as the Hellenic states regularly witnessed their emergence. The reason lies simply in the fact that tyranny is everywhere the result of universal suffrage, and that the Italians excluded the burgesses who had no land from their public assemblies longer than the Greeks did: when Rome departed from this course, monarchy did not fail to emerge, and was in fact associated with this ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... provisional Government conceded to all Brazilians who could read and write universal suffrage, and this was followed by the appointment of a Commission for the providing of a Federal Constitution. Republican measures came quickly. On January 10, 1890, the separation of Church and State was decreed by the ...

— South America • W. H. Koebel

... initiative in legislation. The members of the former must be at least forty years old and married; every aspirant for a seat in the latter must be twenty-five and of good character. Both these bodies were alike to be elected by universal suffrage working indirectly through secondary electors, and limited by educational and property qualifications. There were many wholesome checks and balances. This constitution is known as that of I Vendemiaire, An IV, or September twenty-second, 1795. It became operative ...

— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. I. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

... unwisely neglected by the Republicans, is strong with labor, and will be stronger the more it is discussed. Prohibitionists should advocate universal suffrage with ...

— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various

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