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 author places the Fowlers’ uplifting take on phrenology in the context of the era’s other reform movements—abolition, suffrage and temperance—which aimed for large-scale social transformation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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

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

She asked him what he would think if editorials supported suffrage for uneducated immigrants while he was asked to wait patiently.

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

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 Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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

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