Towards a Democratic Franchise Suffrage Reform in the Twentieth-Century Bahamas
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 secr...
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Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
2022
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