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

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

After eighteen hours of discussion and debate over a two-day period, the suffrage resolution passed by a narrow margin.

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 latter were created by the suffrages of the people; in the former vacancies were filled by the College of Pontiffs itself.

From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

Flattering himself with being able to reconcile the suffrages, he went to the temple and preached.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach

Mr. Bradlaugh again seeks the suffrages of the electors of Northampton.

From The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle by Charles Bradlaugh

The holy angels would guard herself and the dear innocents, if angelic suffrages could be secured by never-ceasing fervent prayer.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield