manhood suffrage

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manhood suffrage (uncountable)

  1. (politics, now chiefly historical) The right of all male citizens of sufficient age to vote in popular elections. [from 19th c.]
    • 2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, published 2017, page 317:
      [T]he old demands of manhood suffrage and annual parliaments were made, but the principal cry was for ‘Bread! Bread!’
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