Suffrage during French revolution : right to vote
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Suffrage: the right to vote During the French Revolution, which resulted the first political experiment in liberal democracy, the right to vote and to get elected was granted exclusively to -property-owning men. The suffrage was not given to - Men without property and -all women were excluded from political rights. But only for a brief period under the Jacobins did all adult males enjoy suffrage. However, the Napoleonic Code went back to limited suffrage and reduced women to the status of a minor, subject to the authority of fathers and husbands Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries women and non-propertied men organised opposition movements demanding equal political rights.