Suffrage
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Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums. In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to vote is called acti
People queuing and showing their identity documents for voting in the 2014 Indian general election
A British postcard against women's suffrage postcard from c. 1908. It shows unflattering caricatures of suffragettes in front of parliament and the caption: "This is the house that man built" with a poem. From the People's History Museum, Manchester.
Britain's WSPU poster by Hilda Dallas, 1909
Women's Suffrage Headquarters on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1912
Universal suffrage
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Universal suffrage or universal franchise refers to the right to vote being available for all adults within a jurisdiction. The idea is often endorsed by the slogan "one man, one vote".
Suffrage
…bone or knuckle bone. In the 17th century the English suffrage regained the earlier meaning of the Latin suffragium, "a vote" or "the right to vote". Universal suffrage would be achieved when all have the right to vote without restriction. It could, for example, look like a system where everyone was presumed to have…
Voting is an important part of the formal democratic process.
The European Parliament is the only international organ elected with universal suffrage (since 1979).
Satirical drawing by Touchatout depicting the birth of universal suffrage, "one of the most sacred rights of Man, born in France on 24 february 1848."