suffrage

The male-female suffrage distinction was easy, but in California, who, exactly, was a white male?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

The author places the Fowlers’ uplifting take on phrenology in the context of the era’s other reform movements—abolition, suffrage and temperance—which aimed for large-scale social transformation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Universal suffrage is, however, practised in the breakaway region of Somaliland, which declared independence in 1991 but has never been internationally recognised.

From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025

The suffrage coin showed a marcher with a “votes for women” sign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

He said it was up to the states to decide whether to allow female suffrage.

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

I do not need your suffrages nor your oaths.

From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Will the Dean of St. Paul's ask for suffrages on the matter?

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

History does not inform of any discussion with reference to it, nor of any suffrages having been taken.

From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Charles G. Addison

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

From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman