The right of "manhood suffrage" has been greatly extended, and before the twentieth century has advanced much farther every man in England will probably have a voice in the elections.
Mr. President, if we are to venture upon this wide sea of universal suffrage, I object to manhood suffrage.
Republicans presented their petitions in a way to destroy their significance, as petitions for "universal suffrage," which to the public meant "manhood suffrage.
In Ohio they oppose it especially because it commits the people of the Nation in favor of manhood suffrage.
But, above all, the vital principle of manhood suffrage, and the righteousness or unrighteousness of the war to preserve the Union, were issues to be decided.
Such a simple franchise is to be found in manhood suffrage, which would admit of the easy transfer of electors' names from the register of one electoral division to another.
Among the negroes the most natural thing was to die--to die from exposure, from starvation, and sometimes from heroic doses of manhood suffrage.
In the aggregate, however, the existing franchises approach measurably near manhood suffrage.
Having its roots in manhood suffrage, it delegated very extensive powers to the head of the State.
There Webster, in the prime of his manhood, and John Adams, in the closing years of his old age, alike protested against such radical innovations as manhood suffrage.
It was near the end of the eighteenth century before he accepted the idea of manhood suffrage.
A debate sprang up on the question of manhood suffrage, claimed by the Levellers as being in accordance with natural right, and rejected by their opponents, to whom natural right was a mere absurdity.
On November 8, seeing that the Levellers were bent on pushing forward their proposal of manhood suffrage, he obtained a vote from the Army Council directing that both officers and Agitators should be sent back to their regiments.
In reference to this The Revolution said: The proposed amendment for "manhood suffrage" not only rouses woman's prejudices against the negro, but on the other hand his contempt and hostility toward her.
Speculation had brought a small body of Englishmen to definite support of manhood suffrage, annual Parliaments, and the substitution of pledged delegates for representatives with freedom of action.
Both Cromwell and Ireton were strongly opposed to manhood suffrage, and Cromwell--to whom the immediate danger was a royalist reaction--had no patience for men who would embark on democratic experiments at such a season.
To Lilburne the one guarantee for good government was in the supremacy of a Parliament elected by manhood suffrage.
It was true that the Government did not carry out that binding obligation, and it was also true that until the present time nothing more was ever said about a manhood suffrage bill, but that was not the Government's fault.
This might be construed to mean that the Government were going to introduce a manhood suffrage bill or a bill for the abolition of plural voting, which had been suggested in some quarters as a substitute for the manhood suffrage bill.
Persons who object to manhood suffrage as the last resort for the settlement of public questions are bound to show where, in all the world, a juster or more practicable regulation or convention has been arrived at.
In a republic in which the final appeal is to manhood suffrage, the educated minority of the people is constantly stimulated to exertion, by the instinct of self-preservation as well as by love of country.
The most civilized nations of the world have all either adopted this final appeal to manhood suffrage, or they are approaching that adoption by rapid stages.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manhood suffrage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
