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"Equality before law did not stand for universal suffrage in France after the revolution". Explain withsuitable examples |
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Answer» "Equality before law did not necessarily stand for universal suffrage in France after the revolution.” Universal suffrage or universal right to vote was never granted. In revolutionary France, as part of the first political experiment in liberal democracy, the right to vote and get elected was granted exclusively to property-owning men. Men without property and all women did not get political rights. Only briefly under the Jacobins all the adult males enjoyed suffrage. The Napoleonic Code also 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. |
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