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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Right to Vote

Miguel Ángel Presno Linera

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
July 2021

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 18 January 2025

Subject(s):
Comparative constitutional law — Right to vote — Bill of rights — Civil and political rights

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
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1 The right to vote was included in early declarations of rights (bill of rights). The English Bill of Rights (1689) stated that ‘election of members of Parliament ought to be free’ (elections), while the Declaration of Rights (1776) made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia provided: That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage and cannot be taxed or...
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