Suffrage used in a sentence

Suffrage in a sentence as a noun

It wasn't saying you couldn't vote if you were black but it had the same effect of denying most blacks suffrage anyway.

No one ever won an election for women's suffrage, but the policies still got adopted.

It's on the order of slavery, women's suffrage, the "trail of tears", prohibition, civil rights in the South, etc.

They are just as wrong in their beliefs as those who supported segregation were or those who were against women's suffrage were.

Unless you're relating the end of slavery, women's suffrage etc to the founding of the IRS, this is a fallacious argument.

Many of us view being anti-gay just as absolutely unacceptable as being pro-slavery or denying suffrage to women.

It has had its rite of passage, from the early days of Indian removal, slavery, the mexican war, expansion, the civil war and many other wars plus thing like Women's suffrage.

From WW2 to the 60s, if you happened to be a racial minority, there was almost no-where less free in the developed world; the US was extremely late amongst developed countries to grant universal suffrage.

As it stands, Article V places the following limits:"... provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.