The Reform Act of 1832 doubled the number of voters in Great Britain, gave industrial cities representation in Parliament for the first time, and gave the middle-class men who owned a certain amount of property the right to vote. ... Sadler's reports caused the parliament to pass the Factory Act of 1833-1839. ... At the end of the 1800s many reforms in the original People's Charter had been passed in Parliament. ... While Gladstone & Disraeli were trying to extend voting rights for men, some members in the Parliament were also pushing for women's right to vote but still they c...

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Women were not allowed the right to vote, many don't go to college, face much discrimination, and there were barely any property rights for women. ... The group passed the Declaration of Sentiments, a list of grievances and demands modeled on the Declaration of Independence that called on women to organize and petition for their rights. A controversial demand for the right to vote passed by a narrow margin....

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In modern democracy there is a separation of powers: Executive, where policies are discussed in the cabinet, Legislative, where legislations are passed and Judiciary, which includes the law courts and the legal system. ... As a citizens in modern democracy we have the freedom of lifestyle, press, speech, association, movement, and right to live, to own property, to be protected. ... Instead of the Parliament they had the assembly, but still they passed laws which were expected to be obeyed just as today. ...

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James Madison said, "Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention have ever been bound incompatible with personal security of the rights of property" no doubt he had little faith in democracy. ... Several amendments have since been passed to make our society a much more democratic one. ...

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As long as men hold different opinions, have different amounts of wealth, and own different amount of property, they will continue to fraternize with people who are most similar to them. ... Madison's views on faction are still relevant and exercised frequently even after 200 years have passed. ...

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World war one caused destruction to human life and property on such a scale that never had been witnessed before. ... The Fascists emerged as a bulwark to communism and in Italy Mussolini's Blackshirts broke up Communist strikes and in1933 Hitler used the threat of communism to pass his Enabling act. ... He used mass hysteria and propaganda to gain him support and once in power he used intimidation to pass the Enabling Act, which gave him totalitarian control. ...

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Back by then, many people were excluded from voting only men of wealth and property were allow to vote, and Canada's government represented only the interests of these few voter. ... "In 1876, for example, British Columbia dropped property ownership as a qualification to vote. ... In accordance with these rules of order, "all bills-public and private must pass through various stages before they become law. ...

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Two of the key pieces of legislation passed during the 1920's will also be considered, the Universal Suffrage Bill and the Peace Preservation Law, both of 1925, as together they illustrate the cautious balance between progress and retreat that punctuated interwar Japanese politics. ... However, this piece of legislation was by no means unconditional – it was passed almost simultaneously alongside the infamous Peace Preservation Law, an unforgiving attack on dissenting activity that will be considered later on in this essay. ... Again, the constitutional makeup of the Japanese state me...

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Often argued as being property, slaves received little benefits in our new country. ... (Zinn, 1995) Under the innocent surface one finds that our government could easily pass ridiculous taxes just as the British did. ...

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Athenian women were first owned by their fathers, until they were passed on to their husbands. ... Women could participate in sports, own/oversee property, and become educated in reading and writing. ...

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All of this happening since 1764 when Britain began rolling their tax snowball it only took 2 years for colonists to really start highly organized groups aimed at revolting the British rule, the Sons of Liberty being one of the first to start removing tax agents and inciting boycotts and eventually aggressive actions like attacking British agents and destroying British property. ... Prior to his terms in office the vote was limited to property owners or taxpayers, but during his administration it came to include virtually all white male adults, with few exceptions involving property requireme...

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Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. Thus, the ruling post-communists, the Romanian Social Democrats (PSD) of prime-minister and PSD party leader Adrian Nastase have to decide on how to continue the required political, social and economic transforma-tion process. Can they afford social unrest due to required reforms of the eco-nomic and social sys...

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