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

The name is a nod to the women’s suffrage movement and was popularized by a 1912 textile industry strike in Lawrence, Mass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 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

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

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

I 'm afraid I 'm not in the humor just now to give it my best suffrages.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever

But the monarchy among the Goths of Spain was still elective, and it may be that Roderic had been legally placed on the throne by the suffrages of his fellow-peers.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence