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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

These ranged from facts about the history of women’s suffrage to the founding of Puerto Rico’s oldest punk band, La Experiencia de Toñito Cabanillas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

“The struggle for suffrage was just around the corner,” notes Fink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

Anthony’s Quaker upbringing also had discouraged interest in partisan politics and women’s suffrage, so she focused on working with the temperance movement.

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

At length it was wisely agreed by both parties to withdraw their suffrages from each in favour of a third candidate, if one could be found who should be agreeable to the whole congregation.

From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman

The intellectual power of George Sand is attested by the suffrages of Europe.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

Any social reform to be permanent and effectual must be carried out by the universal suffrages of the people.

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Shib Chunder Bose

And they do this when they cannot point to one thing done officially to justify their claims to the suffrages of the people.

From The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts