suffrage

Johnson had prosecuted graft and civic corruption in San Francisco, and his progressive reforms gave California voters some of the very tools your ballot offers you today: the initiative, recall, referendum, and women’s suffrage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

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 fight for women’s suffrage, the prohibition movement and other progressive achievements marked the years before the sesquicentennial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Women in Kansas already had the right to vote in school elections, and many women’s rights leaders thought that there was a real possibility that full suffrage could be won there.

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

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

Bradford, by the suffrages of his brethren, was made Governor for the first time in Carver's place.

From The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims And Its Place in the Life of To-day by Albert Christopher Addison

So if one had failed in that trying period of the country, the world was sure to hear of it when he came up for the suffrages of the people.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley

He proceeded to Rome, and, by a series of popular speeches, in which he promised everything to the people, he, of course, gained their suffrages.

From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket