As we have been studying this week, some of the features of democracies are the practice of universal suffrage and a supreme law called Constitution, that includes the rights and duties of citizens and the explanation of the organization of the State and its insitutions. This week´s research will be focused on suffrage and Constitutions.
QUESTION 1
How do we call the limited suffrage, reserved only to the people who have a specific economic status?
QUESTION 2
How do we call the limited suffrage, reserved only to the people who have a specific economic status?
QUESTION 2
What was the first Spain´s Constitution to include universal male suffrage?
When was universal male suffrage definitively established in Spain?
QUESTION 3
When were women allowed to vote in Spain? Who was the deputy responsible for defending women right to vote in Spain?
What happened during Franco´s dictatorship with the women right to vote?
QUESTION 4
Here you have a scene of Mary Poppins, a film you may have seen many times. Watch it and answer the question below:
What´s a suffragette?
QUESTION 5
What was the first written Constitution of the world? What type of suffrage did it include?
QUESTION 6
Amendements are corrections or changes made to the Constitution of a country. Here you have a cartoon that reflects the first 10 amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America.
What have been the most important amendments made in the Constitution of the USA related to voting? Explain them.
