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Final Test RBI Universal Languages

The document discusses the history of voting rights in Britain and the United States. It describes how voting rights expanded from only wealthy landowners being able to vote to eventually all citizens over 18. Barriers to black voting in the US persisted until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. American women were not allowed to vote until 1920.

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Final Test RBI Universal Languages

The document discusses the history of voting rights in Britain and the United States. It describes how voting rights expanded from only wealthy landowners being able to vote to eventually all citizens over 18. Barriers to black voting in the US persisted until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. American women were not allowed to vote until 1920.

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RBI Universal Languages LEGAL TRANSLATION

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Au début du XIXe siècle, le mouvement abolitionniste gagna du terrain dans le nord-est et de


nombreux États réduisirent le nombre de crimes passibles de la peine de mort.
La première moitié du XXe siècle marqua le début d'une période de réformes mais, à la suite
de la révolution russe, on vit grandir la peur de la trahison et certains États abolitionnistes
rétablirent la peine de mort.
La Cour suprême l'ayant déclarée anticonstitutionnelle, la peine capitale fut suspendue de 1972
à 1976. Depuis, plus de 1 000 personnes ont été exécutées et plus de 3 300 sont dans le couloir
de la mort dans l'attente de leur exécution. La peine de mort est illégale dans 12 États et, dans
4 autres, personne n'a été exécuté récemment. 60 % des Américains sont encore favorables à la
peine de mort.

ln Britain ,until 1832, only rich landowners could vote. ln 1832, the Reform Act extended the
right to vote to the middle class (but it was still based on wealth only 5 0/0 of the adult
population could vote). The upper working class was granted it in 1867. ln 1872 voting by
secret ballot was introduced.It was not until 1918 that all males aged 21 and over were given
the right to vote. Thanks to the suffragette movement, women were also granted the right to
vote, but they had to be married and at least 30 years old! ln 1928 voting rights were at long
last granted unconditionally to all women aged at least 21. The age limit for all was Iowered to
18 in 1969.
ln the United States ln theory, the 15th Amendment (1870) granted the right to vote to all male
citizens regardless of colour or previous condition of servitude. But some Southern states threw
up barriers to black voting (such as intimidation, literacy tests, taxes, etc.) that persisted until
the Voting Rights Act (1965), which granted the unconditional right to vote to black men and
women.American women were not allowed to vote until the ratification of the 19th Amendment
in 1920. A final extension of suffrage took place in 1971 when the 26th Amendment Iowered
the voting age from 21 to 18.

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