suffrage

It passed civil rights acts that guaranteed birthright citizenship and enacted Reconstruction Acts that secured black suffrage in the South.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

He laid the basis for Conservatives to dominate British politics from 1886 to 1997, as his successors adapted to an emergent mass culture and wider suffrage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Universal suffrage is, however, practised in the breakaway region of Somaliland, which declared independence in 1991 but has never been internationally recognised.

From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025

In Wyoming, a group of the wives of elected officials had worked behind the scenes to convince their husbands to support female suffrage.

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

The "Electre" carried off all suffrages, and astonished even criticism itself.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various

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

While the two great national parties divided the suffrages of the people, North and South, everything in his eyes was dead.

From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by John B. Remsburg

This was their “privilege,” a privilege which might soon have become but a doubtful benefit had not great actors arisen to keep alive the classical drama by their command on the suffrages of the masses.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon