widening the franchise Flashcards

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The franchsie

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-Franchise the ability or right to vote in public elections.
- Commonwealth cititzens can vote as citizens who have been outside the country for less than 15 years
-people under 18
-eu citizens apart from the irish
-member of HOL
-prisioners

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The great reform act 1832 ?

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-rotten boroughs
-granted vote to new groups tenant farmers and small property owners
-all males who paid 10 pound rent or more a year

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struggle for womans votes ?

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-1903 WSPU were formed by the pankhurst more militant
-1913 emily davidson killed at epsom derby
-1918 representation of people act women 30 with property could vote

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