Editing Women's suffrage (section)

==== Belgium ====
[[File:C1910 Jane Brigode Belgian suffragist.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Jane Brigode]], Belgian suffragist, {{Circa|1910}}]]
A revision of the constitution in October 1921 (it changed art. 47 of the [[Constitution of Belgium|Constitution of Belgium of 1831]]) introduced the general right to vote according to the "one man, one vote" principle. Art. 47 allowed widows of World War&nbsp;I to vote at the national level as well.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.verfassungen.eu/b/belgien31-index.htm|title=Verfassung des Königreichs Belgien (1831)|website=www.verfassungen.eu}}</ref> <!--- a sentence in the new Art. 47 says that it is possible to create an electoral law giving the same voting rights as to men - and fixed that such el. laws needed a 2/3 majority to pass. see [[Special law#Belgium]]---> The introduction of women's suffrage was already put onto the agenda at the time, by means of including an article in the constitution that allowed approval of women's suffrage by [[Special law#Belgium|special law]] (meaning it needed a 2/3 majority to pass).<ref>this 2/3 majority had been fixed in 1921 when Art. 47 was changed as mentioned above</ref> Belgian socialists opposed the women's suffrage, fearing their conservative leanings and their "domination" by the clergy.<ref name="Colomer-2001">{{Cite book |last=Colomer |first=Josep M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uif6pJn6WHUC |title=Political Institutions: Democracy and Social Choice |date=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-152925-2 |pages=36 |language=en}}</ref> This happened on March 27, 1948. In Belgium, voting is compulsory.