Editing Universal suffrage (section)

==Women's suffrage==
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In [[Sweden]] (including Swedish-ruled [[Finland]]), women's suffrage was granted during the [[Age of Liberty]] from 1718 until 1772.<ref>Karlsson Sjögren, Åsa, Männen, kvinnorna och rösträtten: medborgarskap och representation 1723–1866 [Men, women and suffrage: citizenship and representation 1723–1866], Carlsson, Stockholm, 2006 (in Swedish)</ref>

In [[Corsican Republic|Corsica]], women's suffrage was granted in 1755 and lasted until 1769.<ref name="Kulinski">A. Kulinski, K. Pawlowski. "The Atlantic Community – The Titanic of the XXI Century". p. 96. WSB-NLU. 2010</ref>

Women's suffrage (with the same property qualifications as for men) was granted in [[New Jersey]] in 1776 (the word "inhabitants" was used instead of "men" in the 1776 Constitution) and rescinded in 1807.

The [[Pitcairn Islands]] granted restricted women's suffrage in 1838. Various other countries and states granted restricted women's suffrage in the later half of the nineteenth century, starting with [[South Australia]] in 1861.

The first unrestricted women's suffrage in a major country was granted [[Women's suffrage in New Zealand|in New Zealand]] in 1893.<ref name="Nohlen">{{cite book |last=Nohlen |first=Dieter |author-link=Dieter Nohlen |date=2001 |title=Elections in Asia and the Pacific: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific |page=14 |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> The women's suffrage bill was adopted mere weeks before the general election of 1893. Māori men had been granted suffrage in 1867, white men in 1879. The ''[[Freedom in the World]]'' index lists New Zealand as the only free country in the world in 1893.<ref name="Kulinski"/>

[[South Australia]] first granted women suffrage and allowed them to stand for parliament [[Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act 1894|in 1894]].

In 1906, the autonomous [[Grand Duchy of Finland]] became the first territory to give women full political rights, i.e. both the right to vote and to run for office, and was the second in the world and the first in Europe to give women the right to vote.<ref name="eduskunta.fi"/><ref name="web.archive.org"/> The world's first female members of parliament were [[1907 Finnish parliamentary election|elected]] in Finland the following year, 1907. After the German Revolution of 1918–19, the Weimar Constitution established universal suffrage in 1919 with a minimum voting age of 20.

The UK gave women the right to vote at the same age as men (21) in 1928.

In 1931, the [[Second Spanish Republic]] allowed women the right of [[passive suffrage]] with three women being elected.

During a discussion on extending women's right to active suffrage, the Radical Socialist [[Victoria Kent]] confronted the Radical [[Clara Campoamor]]. Kent argued that Spanish women were not yet prepared to vote and, since they were too influenced by the [[Catholicism in the Second Spanish Republic|Catholic Church]], they would vote for right-wing candidates. Campoamor however pleaded for women's rights regardless of political orientation. Her point finally prevailed and, in the election of 1933, the political right won with the vote of citizens of any sex over 23. Both Campoamor and Kent lost their seats.

In Switzerland, [[Women's suffrage in Switzerland|women's suffrage]] was introduced at the federal level, by a nationwide (male) referendum in 1971, but the referendum did not give women the right to vote at the local Cantonal level. The Cantons independently voted to grant women the right to vote. The first Canton to give women the right to vote was [[Canton of Vaud|Vaud]] in 1959. The last Canton, [[Appenzell Innerrhoden]], had a centuries-old law forbidding women to vote. This was only changed in 1990 when Switzerland's Federal Court ordered the Canton to grant women the right to vote.<ref name=Appenzell>{{cite web |url=http://www.ai.ch/de/portrait/geschichte/welcome.php?action=showinfo&info_id=219 |title=1990 - Einführung des Frauenstimmrechtes |publisher=Kanton Appenzell Innerrhoden |language=de |location=Appenzell, Switzerland |access-date=2016-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822025740/http://www.ai.ch/de/portrait/geschichte/welcome.php?action=showinfo&info_id=219 |archive-date=22 August 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>