All 4 Uses
suffrage
in
Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
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- Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).†
Subsection 3 *suffrage = right to vote
- Now, the Illinois Constitution of 1818 had already granted the suffrage to all white male inhabitants of twenty-one or over without further qualification, so that Lincoln's proposal actually involved a step backward.2 The parenthetic inclusion of women was bold enough, however, assuming that Lincoln expected to be taken seriously.†
Subsection 3
- The words were written twelve years before the first Women's Rights Convention met at Seneca Falls, and even then, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton proposed to include suffrage among other demands, her colleague, the Quakeress Lucretia Mott, had chided: "Elizabeth, thee will make us ridiculous.†
Subsection 3
- None of the states of the Northwest allowed Negro suffrage.†
Subsection 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(suffrage) the right to vote
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)