The right of almost all adults to vote in political elections.
普选权
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In Germany the Social Democrats exploited universal suffrage in Reichstag elections to return 81 deputies in 1903.
Elections were built around universal suffrage and proportional representation.
Marx and Engels supported the Chartists' campaign for universal suffrage and for factory legislation to reduce the working day.
The last general election saw the lowest turnout since universal suffrage was introduced.
The agreement provided for qualified majority rule and elections with universal suffrage.
The development of the right to vote - universal suffrage - was a product of colossal revolutionary struggles.
We have moved on since then, and we have developed wider democracy, universal suffrage, and the role of the media, which is important.
According to Freedom House statistics, no countries allowed universal suffrage in 1900.
This erupted in Belgium in 1891, 1893 and 1902, winning universal suffrage.
Yet universal suffrage has failed to deliver the results which even Karl Marx once thought it might.
In 1928, all women were given the vote, thus creating universal suffrage.
Craig used a forthcoming review of local government structures to procrastinate on the issue of universal suffrage in local government.
In this, it's like the more sophisticated political ideas behind universal suffrage.
Marx wrote that the Paris Commune was elected by universal suffrage but women didn't have the vote.
The Constitution of the Second Republic of Gambia provides for elections by universal suffrage for adults eighteen and older.
Were comrades in the past mistaken to fight for universal suffrage; was the sum of that achievement just to sow illusions in bourgeois democracy?
This is tantamount to abolishing one of the most basic democratic rights - universal suffrage.
In South Africa this year a ruling class which had always denied the vote to the great majority of the population was forced to concede universal suffrage at one blow.
There has never been a time since universal suffrage when establishment politics has been so cut off.
Battles were fought first against slavery and segregation, then for universal suffrage and political representation.