Towards a Democratic Franchise
Suffrage Reform in the Twentieth-Century Bahamas
Author(s)
Aranha, Stephen B.
Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Bahamas, Elections, Democracy, Constitution, Decolonisation, Colonialism, Suffrage, CitizenshipDOI
10.12946/gplh20ISBN
9783944773384, 9783944773391Publisher website
https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/enPublication date and place
Frankfurt am Main, 2022Series
Global Perspectives on Legal History, 20Classification
Legal history
European history
History of the Americas
History and Archaeology
c 1500 onwards to present day
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