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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

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

A dozen Kansas women organized a women’s rights society to advocate for full female suffrage, and Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell went to Kansas to work on the campaign.

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

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

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

From The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle by Charles Bradlaugh

The "Electre" carried off all suffrages, and astonished even criticism itself.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various

The new democracies which were to take the place of the old kingdoms had to have some sanction other than the suffrages of the people.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert