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

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

Somalians turned out in droves on Thursday to vote in local elections in the capital Mogadishu -- the first by universal suffrage in nearly 60 years -- with the city locked down amid security concerns.

From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025

When Stanton asked Lucretia Mott to sign the petition for female suffrage, she refused.

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 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

That which, from Homer to Shakespeare, has conquered the suffrages of the world, is solemnising and saddening, rather than tear-compelling.

From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker

Nevertheless, 4,029 suffrages were accorded him in the 15th arrondissement.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith

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