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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

In 1780, remarkably, Richmond proposed annual parliaments and universal male suffrage, 138 years before the latter would be achieved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

In a democratic republic the people choose those representatives through elections with broad suffrage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

Stanton and Anthony wrote articles and letters, held meetings, and circulated petitions demanding that Congress “extend the right of suffrage to woman.”

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

"My business to-day," he repeated, "is to ask your attention for the distinguished candidate who seeks your suffrages, and for the--the distinguished gentleman on my left who will presently follow me."

From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

Will the Dean of St. Paul's ask for suffrages on the matter?

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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