suffrage
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Suffrage
The right to vote at public elections.
suffrage
noun affranchisement, autonomy, choice, emancipation, enfranchisement, exemption from connrol, exemption from restraint, franchise, freedom, freeeom of choice, liberation, liberty, license, manumission, option, popular decision, prerogative, right to vote, say, self-determination, self-government, suffragium, voice, voteAssociated concepts: election law, voters' rights
See also: discretion, franchise
SUFFRAGE, government. Vote; the act of voting.
2. The right of suffrage is given by the constitution of the United
States, art. 1, s. 2, to the electors in each state, as shall have the
qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the
state legislature. Vide 2 Story on the Const. Sec. 578, et seq.; Amer.
Citiz. 201; 1 Bl. Com. 171; 2 Wils. Lect. 130; Montesq. Esp. des Lois, Ii v.
11, c. 6; 1 Tucker's Bl. Com. App. 52, 3. See Division of opinion.