According to Osho, only persons with appropriate qualifications should be allowed to vote.

In those areas that held elections, property qualifications or guild membership limited both who could vote and who could run.

The Fifteenth Amendment and Nineteenth Amendment bar the use of race or sex as qualifications to vote in both federal and state elections.

In 1879, after Stone organized a petition by suffragists across the state, Massachusetts women were given strictly delimited voting rights: a woman who could prove the same qualifications as a male voter was allowed to cast her vote for members of the school board.

Under British law at the time, peers of the United Kingdom ( meeting certain qualifications, such as age ) were automatically members of the House of Lords and could not sit in, or vote in elections for, the other chamber, the House of Commons.

All men over 21 and military servicemen over 19 gained a vote in parliamentary elections without property qualifications.

Furthermore, women in all states except New Jersey lost the right to vote in 1787 when the Constitutional Convention placed voting qualifications in the hands of the states.

In the 1820s, New York State removed all property qualifications for the right to vote for whites but retained them for blacks.

In the beginning, only men were eligible to be members of the Assembly, and only around one half of men were able to pass the property or income qualifications required to vote.

The " right to vote " is explicitly stated in the U. S. Constitution in the above referenced amendments but only in reference to the fact that the franchise cannot be denied or abridged based solely on the aforementioned qualifications.

In other words, the " right to vote " is perhaps better understood, in layman's terms, as only prohibiting certain forms of legal discrimination in establishing qualifications for suffrage.

This meant that all resident males could qualify for the vote, with the qualifications for suffrage applied equally, regardless of race.

" Senators on both sides of the aisle praised Carmona's qualifications and supported his nomination ; he was confirmed by the U. S. Senate on July 23, 2002 by a vote of 98-0.

In Natal the vote was limited to men over 21 who met property and literacy qualifications ; in theory this could include non-white men but in practise only very small numbers managed to qualify: in 1910 over 99 % of the electorate was white.

In the Cape Province the vote was also limited to men over 21 who met property and literacy qualifications, and non-white men did qualify in significant numbers, making up approximately 15 % of the electorate in 1910.

The argument that vote caging should be illegal is that it could disenfranchise qualified voters simply because of the high possibility that data errors in the mailing list and voters ' changing addresses could result in undelivered mail, rather than any problem with their qualifications.

Free blacks who met the property qualifications continued to be eligible to vote.

Prior to this act only women over 30 who met minimum property qualifications could vote.

The entitlement to vote for the Members of Parliament representing the constituencies varied widely, with different qualifications such as owning property of a certain value, holding an apprenticeship, qualifying for paying the local-government rates, or holding a degree from the university in question.

indeed, my scholastic qualifications were such that he, a college graduate himself, must envy me them.

What is interesting is that his positive qualifications for the post were revealed only as a kind of tail to his candidacy.

Undoubtedly helpful was that some of the university ’ s strongest programs were in the areas of music, speech, and art, disciplines in which ability could be measured by audition or portfolio rather than through paper qualifications.

Veteran qualifications differed from the junior enrollee ; one needed to be certified by the Veterans Administration by application, they could be any age, and married or single as long as they were in need of work.

The authors provide no qualifications, although they are described in Hubbard's book Science of Survival ( where some results of the same study were reprinted ) as psychotherapists.

Until this German Federal legislation was introduced, there were no recognised mechanism to prevent administrators in private bodies and civil servants in public-funded bodies ( such as universities ) from automatically discriminating between the qualifications of people with German doctorates compared to holders of doctorates from an EU member state.

New qualifications were developed to cope with changing aspirations and economics, with the Leaving Certificate being replaced by the Scottish Certificate of Education Ordinary Grade (' O-Grade ') and Higher Grade (' Higher ') qualifications in 1962, which became the basic entry qualification for university study.

The major qualifications of all these men, none of whom had previously held a diplomatic position before, were that they were close friends of Luther, and as a way of splitting the SS ( the traditional rivalry between the SS and SA was still running strong ).

Since the standard qualifications for the college were not met — Marcus did not have two living parents — they must have been waived by Hadrian, Marcus ' nominator, as a special favor to the child.

Vladimir Lenin wrote that appointments were to take the following criteria into account: reliability, political attitude, qualifications, and administrative ability.

As a sign of their independence from national ties, judges were given full diplomatic immunity when engaged in Court business The only requirements for a judge were " high moral character " and that they have " the qualifications required in their respective countries the highest judicial offices " or be " jurisconsults of recognized competence in international law ".

" Although positions were complicated by rival Muslim leaders, the bulk of the Syrian rulers supported Saladin due to his role in the Egyptian expedition, in which he gained a record of military qualifications.

Harding's appointment of Harry M. Daugherty as Attorney General received at the time more criticism than any other ; Harding's campaign manager's Ohio lobbying and back room maneuvers with politicians were not considered the best qualifications.

Before union, the Cape Colony had traditionally implemented a system of non-racial franchise, whereby qualifications for suffrage were applied equally to all males, regardless of race.

In 1931, the restricting franchise qualifications were removed for white voters, but kept for Black and " Coloured " voters.

Nearly all members of the bureaucracy were from Portugal, as most Africans did not have the necessary qualifications to obtain positions.

While no constituencies were disfranchised in either of these countries, voter qualifications were standardised and the size of the electorate was expanded in both.

In any case, the " suggestions " of Delacroix were politely rejected and the constitutional commission insisted on the following three essential points: universal manhood suffrage, without fiscal qualifications ; the right of revision of the constitution at quinquennial intervals by the voters ; and finally the rejection of the principle of a bicameral legislature, in which each House would have a separate electoral base.

The team members ’ professional qualifications and parallel interests were also criticised, as were the methodology used and the incomplete selection and use of existing scientific literature on the coca leaf.

At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Johnson kept the three likely vice presidential candidates, Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd, fellow Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, and Humphrey, as well as the rest of the nation in suspense before announcing Humphrey as his running-mate with much fanfare, praising Humphrey's qualifications for a considerable amount of time before announcing his name.

Several qualifications must be kept in mind with respect to any such radically simple scheme of classification, as real practice seldom presents any pure types, and there are settings in which it is useful to speak of a theory of truth that is " almost " k-adic, or that " would be " k-adic if certain details can be abstracted away and neglected in a particular context of discussion.

Certification is a voluntary process and ensures that a nurse has proper qualifications and knowledge of a speciality area and has kept up-to-date in his or her education. By keeping up-to-date you can improve your level of knowledge and will later help you throughout the job.