But was this really a success that the Liberals stayed in power? After the Liberal landslide in 1906 the Conservatives were weak and powerless in the House of Commons, with little than a quarter seats. Therefore Balfour and Lord Lansdowne decided to use their permanent Conservative majority in the House of Lords to block new policies of the Liberal Government. The Lords vetoed their first budget in November 1909 on Lloyd George’s Peoples Budget. The Liberals needed to find £15million of extra revenue to provide for the new social services and for the construction of naval warships.
For a party to form an executive (government), the party needs a majority of 1 seat over the other party’s in the legislature (parliament). The British electoral system has come under scrutiny because a majority of seats allows a party to form an executive not the overall majority of public votes. In 1945 Labour won a landslide victory in the elections and gained a 180 seat majority over the Conservative party, and a 148 seat majority overall. For each seat Labour won they had polled 30,522 votes. However in the 1951 elections Labour had polled 231,067 more votes from the general public than the Conservative party, however the Conservative party gained 26 more seats and squeezed into power.
Many believe that the fact that Lloyd George replaced Asquith as Prime Minister in 1916 held reasonable importance. Asquith was not a supporter of women’s suffrage and had been against giving women the vote. Paula Bartley says “Asquith’s remarks about the female electors of Paisley in 1920 suggest he still resented women’s involvement in Parliament – ‘a dim lot, for the most part hopelessly ignorant of politics’.” This sums up his feeling towards women. Lloyd George, on the other hand, “was sympathetic to women’s suffrage.” Another reason for women gaining enfranchisement was because other countries were doing it too and Britain felt the need to comply. Women in New Zealand were enfranchised in 1893, women in Australia in 1902 and women in Canada in 1917.
Anthony – founding member of American Equal Rights Association 1866. 1872 voted illegally in presidential elections in protest. Against abortion – bad for women’s health. Lucy Stone – studied for a degree, gave lectures against slavery and supporting women’s suffrage. 1869 founded American Woman Suffrage Association American Woman Suffrage Association – 1869 by Lucy Stone, focused on male suffrage, moderate views on women’s suffrage National Women’s Suffrage Association – 1869 by Stanton and Anthony, wanted constitutional amendment giving women the vote National American Woman Suffrage Association – 1890, merging of AWSA and NWSA 1905 had only 17,000 members, 1915 = 100,000 (only half the women involved in temperance and prohibition) Carrie Chapman Catt became president 1900 – moderate campaign lobbying politicians, distributing leaflets, marches and public meetings Congressional Union for Women’s Suffrage 1913 (National Women’s Party as of 1917) – breakaway group led by Alice Paul inspired by militant British suffragettes.
This provides your essay with a clear, structured argument. In 1918, the Representation of the People Act gave women over 30 the vote, if they owned property or were married to a property owner. The major reason for women receiving the vote has been a fundamental source of debate amongst historians. Whilst traditional schools of thought argue that women’s work during WWI radically changed male ideas about their role in society with traditional historians such as Ray suggesting that giving women the vote in 1918 was almost a ‘thank you’ for their efforts, revisionist historians, however, find this analysis too simplistic. AJP Taylor, for example, argues that the war ‘smoothed the way for democracy’ and so there are other factors of significance, such as, suffrage campaign groups (WSPU & NUWSS) and growing equality with men.
They wanted to protect people’s rights against corruption. They also wanted to fight the evils of industrialisation but without going as far as socialism. They appealed for ‘social justice’ including causes such as women’s suffrage, direct election to the senate and conservation. Some Progressives were pacifists and anti-imperialists but most were strong nationalists. The Progressive wing of the Republican party reunited with the mainstream party in 1916.
In the 1912 election the SPD polled 4,250,000 votes and became the largest party in the Reichstag with 110 deputies. Although the Reichstag could be dissolved by the Kaiser, it could not be dissolved completely and it has the right to hold elections after is dissolution. This shows that the Reichstag would always have a voice over political issues in Germany even if the Kaiser elected to dissolve it, showing that Germany was a parliamentary democracy to some
Do you agree with the view that the suffrage movement made ‘substantial progress’ during the first decade of the twentieth century? During the first decade of the 20th century the suffrage movement made significant changes in the way that they campaigned for the vote. Their change in tactics did have some positive effect on the campaign however it did alienate some politicians as they felt the new violent tactics proved that women did not deserve the vote. Even though they brought female suffrage to the attention of the public eye there progress was limited as in they were not able to actually achieve their goal of female suffrage. During the first decade of the 20th century the suffragettes more militant style campaigning was met with a lot of opposition.
1906 election victory disguised one simple fact that the Liberals could not have fought against. After the 1867 Reform Act, far more working class men could vote. This number was further increased after the introduction of the 1884 Reform Act. For years, the only party that seemingly represented the best interests of the working class man was the Liberal Party. The creation of the Independent Labour Party ended this and gave the working class their own political voice.
Womens suffrage synthesis paper. Women have always been under suffrage from the superior male empowerment. they endure depression of rights such as voting and freedom of speech, the thought of women having such straightforward authority to do the bare bone basic in nationalistic movement of voting and cary an impact on our developed country is profound even today in the eyes of a man. people in general can ignore womens suffrage all they desire but it is sure to catch up to any who oppose it, the accusation that women ask to much of the present society almost as if they want more then they need, all together the men have stronger thought towards why women need to be relieved of there freedom. Women are always becoming more independent as time moves on, starting with only a few fighting for freedom to many thousands of women protesting for there rights.