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

In a democratic republic the people choose those representatives through elections with broad suffrage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 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

“The struggle for suffrage was just around the corner,” notes Fink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

The suffrage movement, while having made great progress at the state level, badly needed a dramatic happening at the national level if it was to succeed.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Thomas Carlyle felt that "Ballot-boxes and Electoral suffrages" might prove a fatal threat to heroes.

From Time Magazine Archive

"My business to-day," he repeated, "is to ask your attention for the distinguished candidate who seeks your suffrages, and for the--the distinguished gentleman on my left who will presently follow me."

From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

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

From The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle by Charles Bradlaugh

The candidates for the suffrages of the electors of Chippinge had passed the threshold of the borough.

From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman

So long as a chief felt that his position depended on the suffrages of his subjects he did not dare to indulge his greed, and the trade balance was preserved.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson