EPISODE · Apr 6, 2024 · 2H 13M
Some facts about early suffrage might shock you! | HBR Talk 303
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Last week, we learned quite a bit about how voting rights came to exist under English common law, and how that history intrinsically connects them with civic duty and military obligation, but that only brings us to the point where 1%-3% of the population even had voting rights. We learned some things that contradict conventional “knowledge” about the franchise and who had it. We’re going to continue to do that in this episode.
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Last week, we learned quite a bit about how voting rights came to exist under English common law, and how that history intrinsically connects them with civic duty and military obligation, but that only brings us to the point where 1%-3% of the population even had voting rights. We learned some things that contradict conventional “knowledge” about the franchise and who had it. We’re going to continue to do that in this episode.
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Some facts about early suffrage might shock you! | HBR Talk 303
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