Political rights example sentences

The Balkan peoples based their claims for independence or political rights on nationality and used history to prove that they had once been independent but had subsequently been subjugated by foreign powers.Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries women and non-propertied men organised opposition movements demanding equal political rights.Men without property and all women were excluded from political rights.The issue of extending political rights to women was a controversial one within the liberal movement, in which large numbers of women had participated actively over the years.