We must practice our right to suffrage. From LearnThat.org.
Coincidentally, the term suffrage is synonymous with voting, and the term sufferance means to give passive consent. From Wordnik.com. [Teknosis] Reference
As political goals go, universal suffrage is pretty concrete and non-fictional. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » George Will’s Odd Aversion to Democracy] Reference
Like universal free public education, universal suffrage is a truly revolutionary concept. From Wordnik.com. [Yesterday I Voted] Reference
Has he been convinced by the events of the last two years that universal suffrage is a mistake?. From Wordnik.com. [London: Saturday, November 21, 1863] Reference
I used to admire Emily Pankhurst, now I know why they invented the word suffrage - except they mis-spelt it. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
They did not use the word suffrage at all; and, as she stood there now, her mind ran back over a score of years. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
If under a democratic government universal suffrage is worth anything in the North, then is universal suffrage a paramount necessity in the South. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist] Reference
This demand for the suffrage is in reality an attempt to arrive at a higher morality, to attain to consideration in virtue of goodness and not of charm. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of the Suffragette] Reference
No, no! the right of suffrage is no shadow, but a substantial entity that the citizen can seize and hold for his own protection and his country's welfare. From Wordnik.com. [Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897] Reference
The theory of democracy, where the suffrage is virtually universal, is that every citizen is an intelligent, public-spirited, honest servant of his country's good. From Wordnik.com. [The Safeguarding of Imperial Democracy] Reference
As a moral matter, however, anything other than universal suffrage is incompatible with the fundamental values underlying its creation: the just powers of government by consent. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Violent Misdemeanants, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Right to Vote] Reference
The suffrage is a privilege conferred by the state. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
McKinley were freely discussed, the suffrage was the leading topic. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century] Reference
The suffrage was a bottleneck of law; who voted determined who ruled. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Law] Reference
Vitally connected with the suffrage was the subject of public education. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898] Reference
The suffrage is a necessary means of education and development for both sexes. From Wordnik.com. [VOL. II] Reference
If England had the German Reichstag suffrage law, 9,600,000 would be enfranchised, instead of. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
By contrast, women’s suffrage is not a current issue because no one is fighting to abolish it. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Age and the War] Reference
This war will do more to liberate her than that mild social earthquake called the suffrage movement. From Wordnik.com. [The Living Present] Reference
The suffrage is the turning point of women's cause; it alone will insure to them an equal hearing and fair play. From Wordnik.com. [The American Woman Suffrage Association] Reference
The members are elected for two years by universal suffrage, that is, by the votes of all the free male citizens of. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
They all unite in inculcating the doctrine that the regulation of the suffrage is a power exclusively for the States. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
I know that it is said that the suffrage is a privilege to be extended by those who have it to those who have it not. From Wordnik.com. [Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887] Reference
The entire western or most American part of South Dakota has been twice carried for suffrage, that is, in 1914 and 1916. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment] Reference
The suffrage is the mainspring, the heart of our common life, and whatever affects it injuriously, touches the national sensorium, and the whole country thrills. From Wordnik.com. [Tupelo] Reference
LAMB: Do you have any idea where the word "suffrage" comes from?. From Wordnik.com. [Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words] Reference
The suffrage which is the sovereignty is this great primary law-making power. From Wordnik.com. [Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887] Reference
Happily, in that intervention of popular suffrage which is essential to freedom they are not the qualities required. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Government] Reference
Sometimes ideological conflicts are put aside when feminists share a transcendent social goal, such as suffrage or reproductive choice. From Wordnik.com. [Feminism's Identity Crisis] Reference
Whatever your view of Hillary Clinton, she and her candidacy are the result of more than a century of work toward suffrage. From Wordnik.com. [The Jordan Gospel] Reference
Perhaps the most important emancipator of Japanese women was Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who made women's suffrage occupation policy. From Wordnik.com. [Another Pose Of Rectitude] Reference
The Magna Carta, which first established limits on governmental power, preceded universal adult suffrage in Britain by about 800 years. From Wordnik.com. [How Not to Save the World] Reference
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