suffrage

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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

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

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

The latter were created by the suffrages of the people; in the former vacancies were filled by the College of Pontiffs itself.

From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

Any social reform to be permanent and effectual must be carried out by the universal suffrages of the people.

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Shib Chunder Bose

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