Citations:suffrage

English citations of suffrage

• a. 1900, Thomas Nugent, The Spirit of Laws, translation of original by Charles Baron De Montesquieu, page 12:

  It is a question of some importance whether the suffrages ought to be public or secret.

• 1613, Thomas Fitzherbert, An adioynder to the Supplement of Father Robert Persons his Discussion of M. Doctor Barlowes Ansvvere &c:

  For wheras the principall point which the Cardinall sought to prove thereby, was that Kinges could have no voyce, or suffrage in the definition of Ecclesiasticall matters,

• 1787, US Constitution, Article V:

  no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.