Towards a Democratic Franchise Suffrage Reform in the Twentieth-Century Bahamas

• Tác giả: Stephen B Aranha, Marietta Auer, Thomas Duve, Stefan Vogenauer
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3944773384
• ISBN: gplh20
• Thông tin xuất bản: Frankfurt am Main : Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, 2022
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (336 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 345100
• Chủ đề: 1. Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; 2. European history; 3. History of the Americas; 4. Legal history; 5. Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; 6. Peru

Tóm tắt

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.