manhood suffrage

noun

1. the right of adult male citizens to vote

Example Sentences

Half of the Negroes were women, and manhood suffrage would fasten upon them a new form of slavery.

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The first individual did not believe in universal manhood suffrage and could not favor anything which would double the vote.

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Though the government shall be reconstructed on the basis of universal manhood suffrage, it yet will not be a true republic.

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There is a Tory majority to be picked out of manhood suffrage, as England will surely discover some day.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton pictured the aristocracy of sex and the evils arising from manhood suffrage.

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