Women in Swiss Canton Gained Full Right to Vote in 1990


	Women in Swiss Canton Gained Full Right to Vote in 1990

iulawboy

12-4-2008 2:39 PM

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history, suffrage, women's rights, switzerland, appenzell innerrhoden, prop.8

iulawboy says:

The struggle for civil rights is a long one but the tide is deffinatly on the side of inclusion.
Like the decisions of nations and states that disenfranchised women after previously granting them the right to vote, history will remember prop.8 as a dark spot on the march to the equality the founders proclaimed.

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