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oapen-20.500.12657-619942024-03-27T14:14:42Z Towards a Democratic Franchise Aranha, Stephen B. Auer, Marietta Duve, Thomas Vogenauer, Stefan Bahamas, Elections, Democracy, Constitution, Decolonisation, Colonialism, Suffrage, Citizenship thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAZ Legal history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KL Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America::1KLS South America::1KLSR Peru This book examines the process of electoral reform in the Bahamas during the 20th century in the broader context of decolonisation. Beginning with the General Assembly Elections Act of 1919, which reaffirmed a franchise limited to propertied men, milestones include the introduction of voting by secret ballot between 1939 and 1946, universal adult male suffrage in 1959, women’s suffrage in 1961, and the incremental abolition of plural voting between 1959 and 1969. 2023-03-24T14:34:03Z 2023-03-24T14:34:03Z 2022 book 9783944773384 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61994 eng Global Perspectives on Legal History application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International gplh-20-9783944773384.pdf https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/publikationen/gplh-20 Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory 10.12946/gplh20 10.12946/gplh20 aa1e4fa2-ec92-41bb-bd06-19453b9e6e41 9783944773384 20 336 Frankfurt am Main open access
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This book examines the process of electoral reform in the Bahamas during the 20th century in the broader context of decolonisation. Beginning with the General Assembly Elections Act of 1919, which reaffirmed a franchise limited to propertied men, milestones include the introduction of voting by secret ballot between 1939 and 1946, universal adult male suffrage in 1959, women’s suffrage in 1961, and the incremental abolition of plural voting between 1959 and 1969.
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