suffrage

The male-female suffrage distinction was easy, but in California, who, exactly, was a white male?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

The law requires that committee to review designs, and after a multiyear effort, it settled on five themes for the five quarters: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, abolition, suffrage and civil rights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Her show “Suffs,” which is about the women’s suffrage movement leading up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment, opens Tuesday at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre as part of its inaugural national tour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025

Before he started his four-year term, Tik vowed to get fellow lawmakers to debate the hot-button issue of universal suffrage to elect Hong Kong's leader.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2025

She believed that the issue of female suffrage would not be settled until a woman was arrested for voting and a test case was brought before the courts.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Thomas Carlyle felt that "Ballot-boxes and Electoral suffrages" might prove a fatal threat to heroes.

From Time Magazine Archive

So long as a chief felt that his position depended on the suffrages of his subjects he did not dare to indulge his greed, and the trade balance was preserved.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil

Preces, prē′sez, n.pl. the alternate responsive petitions, as the versicles and suffrages, between the clergyman and the congregation in liturgical worship.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

I do not come to solicit your suffrages," I said, "I come only to place myself at the orders of my country.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de

So if one had failed in that trying period of the country, the world was sure to hear of it when he came up for the suffrages of the people.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler