In the 1920 presidential election they had that right and many of them did vote for the first time.

There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce a 6-6 deadlock that blocked far-out, Democratic-sponsored welfare legislation ( a tactic often acceptable to the Rayburn-Johnson congressional leadership to avoid embarrassing votes ).

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.

It extended citizenship to every person born in the United States ( except Indians on reservations ), penalized states that did not give the vote to freedmen, and most importantly, created new federal civil rights that could be protected by federal courts.

Prior to the 1867 Reform Bill the working class did not possess the vote and therefore had little tangible political power.

ROTC lost the vote ( which would not have been binding on the administration, and did not include graduate students, faculty, or alumni ) by a fraction of a percentage point.

However, the referendum was again marred by reports of vote rigging on the part of the French authorities, with some 10, 000 Somalis deported under the pretext that they did not have valid identity cards.

For instance, the democracy of ancient Athens did not allow women, foreigners, or slaves to vote, and the original United States Constitution left the topic of suffrage to the states ; usually only white male property owners were able to vote.

Though women did not gain the right to vote as a result of the Revolution, they still greatly expanded their political participation and involvement in governing.

He participated little in the debates ( though he did vote for or against the various articles ), but his high prestige maintained collegiality and kept the delegates at their labors.

Spain did not approve during the initial vote, but approved it later that day.

In 1832, the year of the Reform Act which extended the vote in England but did not grant universal suffrage, six men from Tolpuddle in Dorset founded the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers to protest against the gradual lowering of wages in the 1830s.

Palmerston survived the vote in the Commons ; the Lords did not hear the case.

When the vote was held, the convention barely had sufficient votes to ratify, and these likely did not appear until the last minute.

In 2009, in the 121th IOC ( International Olympic Committee ) voting, karate did not receive the necessary two-thirds majority vote to become an Olympic sport.

In the September 1955 election, it won about four percent of the vote but did not secure a seat in the legislature.

Several previously successful parties such as Latvian Way and the Social Democrats did not reach the 5 % threshold of the popular vote needed to be in the parliament.

Though he did vote against the admission of Missouri as a slave state, and though he would be the nominated presidential candidate of the Free Soil Party, an anti-slavery political party, in 1848, there was no ambiguity in his position on the abolition of slavery during his term of office.

He was elected as Pope Julius II to the papal dignity by the near-unanimous vote of the cardinals ( indeed, the only three votes he did not receive were those of Georges D ' Amboise, supposedly his main opponent and the favourite of the French monarchy, and the votes of Cardinals Carafa and Casanova ) almost certainly by means of bribery.

In both elections the Communist candidate Ernst Thälmann did not withdraw and ran in the second round ; in 1925 this probably ensured the election of Paul von Hindenburg ( with only 48. 3 % of the vote ) rather that Wilhelm Marx the candidate of the centre parties.

" He called for denying the vote to Arab citizens who did not serve in the army.

The CJLS, unwilling to use either an intrusive approach or a repudiation of the traditional legal process as bases for action, did not adopt either and let the JTS faculty vote stand unexplained.

In Riyadh, the number of registered voters did not exceed 18 % of those eligible to vote, representing only 2 % of the city's population.

When only one member of a state was on the floor, then that state ’ s vote did not count.

Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.

But if the Trial did not expose the special Nazi mania so deadly to Jews as well as to anyone upon whom it happened to light, neither did it warn very effectively against the ordinary anti-Semitism of which the Nazis made such effective use in Germany and wherever else they could find it.

In answering these questions, we need to ask not merely whether Communist troops have crossed over into territories they did not occupy before, and not merely whether disciplined agents of the Cominform are in control of governments from which they were formerly excluded: the success of Communism's war against the West does not depend on such spectacular and definitive conquests.

Fall River police did go to Westport to see if they could get any information against Morse and possibly find an accomplice whom he might have hired from among these men.

The interchange of shop licenses for a nominal royalty eliminated infringement suits among the members of the A.L.A.M. patent pool ( although it did not protect them against outside actions ) and kept open channels for the cross-fertilization of automotive technology.

The pro-Western government, which the United States had helped in a revolt against the Souvanna Phouma `` neutralist '' government, never did appear to spark much fighting spirit in the Royal Lao Army.

Mitchell was for using it, Jones against, and Sen. Wayne Dumont Jr. R-Warren did not mention it when the three Republican gubernatorial candidates spoke at staggered intervals before 100 persons at the Park Hotel.

Ramsey has a thing or two to mutter about himself, for the Dallas defensive unit turned in another splendid effort against Denver, and the Texans were able to whip the dangerous Broncs without the fullbacking of a top star, Jack Spikes, though he did the team's place-kicking while nursing a knee injury.

The Broncs did hit two quick strikes in the final period against the Texans, but Dallas had enough of a lead to hold them off.

Benington said, `` I've never seen a player have a game as great as Mankowski did against Bradley that day ''.

Assistant Prosecutor Fred Lewis, who tried both the Hengesbach and Pohl cases, said he did not know what would be done about two arson charges pending against Pohl.

In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage.

Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, although in a better location, also was not well – site, had a vulnerable land side and did not have enough heavy artillery for its defense against gunboats.

Milne did not speak out much on the subject of religion, although he used religious terms to explain his decision, while remaining a pacifist, to join the army: " In fighting Hitler ", he wrote, " we are truly fighting the Devil, the Anti-Christ ... Hitler was a crusader against God.

As the German princes were experiencing the tumult of the Reformation, the German Peasants ' War, and the wars against the Ottoman Turks, they did not enforce the ban on the duke, and agitation against him soon died away.

Nor did his piety prevent him from expropriating strategically sited church lands, especially estates along the border with the Danelaw, and transferring them to royal thegns and officials who could better defend them against Viking attacks.

Militarily, Alfonso did much to secure his own realm against the Moors.

He next fought for the sovereignty of Provence against Raymond Berenger III, and not till September 1125 did the war end in an amicable agreement.

They did not dawdle at the hour of decision but attacked quickly, using a massive series of short, rapid, vicious charges against the length of the whole Roman line, with charging units sometimes withdrawing to the forest to regroup while others took their place.

Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past.