Translation of "Das allgemeine wahlrecht" in English

This year it is 100 years since the unicameral parliament was founded and universal suffrage established.

Since universal suffrage began with the 1962 presidential election...

After the Russian Revolution of 1905 they did exercise their right to vote.

Condorcet was also a strong proponent of women's civil rights.

Among these is the fundamental and elementary right of suffrage.

Universal female suffrage was established in 1919.

In 1898, all men were granted universal suffrage.

Good politics, validated by universal suffrage is not enough.

One had to introduce universal suffrage.

Universal suffrage itself owes its existence to direct action.

Universal suffrage is the acme of political liberty.

What did universal suffrage matter to us?

The surge of unrest led to a mass movement for universal suffrage.

For the women at the time universal suffrage was not the key issue, Lawson did not criticise the government for failing to give Indigenous Australians the vote.

He supported universal suffrage.

Universal suffrage was not introduced in local authority elections until the democratic republic was set up in 1918.

This means that our debate on human rights is also a debate on the Community's agricultural policy and, not least, a debate on the GATT talks.

What did we care about universal suffrage? Had we fought four years for that?

Thanks to the general franchise, they even became a strong opposition within the bourgeois parliament.

It is hypothetically possible that we, the Social Democrats' might speak out against universal suffrage.

It demands universal and equal suffrage for all men and women.

In lieu of this qualification, the February Revolution had at once proclaimed direct universal suffrage.

Parliamentary elections take place all five years, the (elective) franchise is valid from eighteen years.

Universal suffrage in elections to the Yemeni Parliament is especially praiseworthy in the context of the all-male electorates in neighbouring states in the region.

Modern democracy aims to be like a temple with foundations of human rights and two pillars of universal suffrage and the principle of responsibility.

Universal suffrage for the election of all of the citizens' representatives will not come into effect for another 10 years.

During my own last visit to Hong Kong I stated publicly that Hong Kong would earn credit at little cost by announcing as early as possible that it intends to introduce universal suffrage by a reasonable and specified date in the future.

In Estonia, for instance, where women were granted full suffrage in 1918, still only one fifth of members of parliament are women, and women hold only every seventh ministerial position – that is, 14%.

Although the Basic Law - which is Hong Kong's mini-constitution - lays down specific criteria for the holding of the 2004 election, it does nonetheless provide for the possible introduction of universal suffrage for the election of all 60 seats for the 2008 election.