suffrage
Electoral participation privilege
Suffrage is the right to vote in political elections.
The term appears most often in historical contexts—the women's suffrage movement fought for decades to secure voting rights for women.
Universal suffrage means all adult citizens can vote regardless of property, race, or sex.
The Nineteenth Amendment granted women's suffrage in the United States.
Voting document
- electorateEligible voting body
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- referendumDirect vote on legislation
- plebisciteDirect vote by citizens
absentee · precinct · constituency · registration · candidacy · nomination · gerrymandering · apportionment
Same status for all
- citizenshipStatus as state member
- democracyRule by the people
- representationDepiction or likeness
- voiceSound from throat
participation · inclusion · discrimination · poll-tax · universal · emancipation · liberation · justice
Masculine given name
- StantonNineteenth-century suffragist surname
- marchRhythmic group walk
- rallyGathering for a cause
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
demonstration · petition · organizer · activist · campaigner · grassroots · solidarity · coalition
State with elected leaders
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
- assemblyConstructing from components
governance · sovereignty · citizenship · representative · delegation · electoral · legislature · polity
ballot
Voting document
- electorateEligible voting body
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- referendumDirect vote on legislation
plebiscite · absentee · precinct · constituency · registration · candidacy · nomination · gerrymandering · apportionment · midterms
equality
Same status for all
- citizenshipStatus as state member
- democracyRule by the people
- representationDepiction or likeness
voice · participation · inclusion · discrimination · poll-tax · universal · emancipation · liberation · justice · equity
Anthony
Masculine given name
protest · demonstration · petition · organizer · activist · campaigner · grassroots · solidarity · coalition · picketing
republic
State with elected leaders
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
assembly · governance · sovereignty · citizenship · representative · delegation · electoral · legislature · polity · civic
- Victorian eraparlour, Victorian etiquette, etiquette, parlor games, courtship
- Roman citizenshipfreedmen, naturalization, freeborn, citizenship rights, voting rights
- history termsempire, dynasty, colonialism, Renaissance, Enlightenment
- Early 1900sroaring twenties, flapper, jazz, speakeasy, prohibition
- women's contributionsvoting rights, feminism, civil rights, equal pay, nursing
- historical forcescultural shifts, political change, social progress, economic development, technological change
suffragedisenfranchisement
Removal of voting rights
disfranchisement · voter suppression · disenfranchised · silencing · antisuffrage
suffragetyranny
Oppressive, absolute governance
autocracy · dictatorship · despotism · authoritarianism · absolutism
- women's suffrageVoting rights for females
- womens suffrageFemale enfranchisement movement
- suffrage movementCampaign for voting rights
- universal suffrageAll adults may vote
- female suffrageWomen's right to vote
- suffragette movementCampaign for female enfranchisement
suffragist, suffragette, suffragists, suffrages, suffragettes, suffragism, suffrage movement