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right to vote

n. a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920" [syn: vote, suffrage]

Usage examples of "right to vote".

Among other things, it tightens POPPA's choke-hold on elections, since giving children the right to vote greatly increases the population of people who support POPPA's social agenda.

He is a man, and by every fact and argument by which any man can sustain his right to vote, the negro can sustain his right equally.

During the Jackson years, most states abandoned property ownership as a prerequisite for the right to vote.

All lords and imperial knights whose lands are enclaves within Franconia must permit their subjects to vote in the upcoming elections, saying that they themselves should have such a right to vote also.

Something more valuable than freedom or sanity or the right to vote, which he would probably lose if convicted.

Do you think that when we lost our money, we should've lost the right to vote?

I do know that it has proved to me that a single citizen, possessed of the right to speak and the right to vote, can make himself felt whenever he takes the trouble to exercise those twin rights.