Noun
universal suffrage (uncountable)
The right to vote in a political election for all citizens who have attained the age of majority and are not disenfranchised under the laws of the country.
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. George Bernard Shaw
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. Rutherford B. Hayes
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage. C. L. R. James
Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice. Salmon P. Chase
Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence. Grover Cleveland
Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can direct human society. It denies that numbers can govern by means of periodical consultations: It asserts the unavoidable fruitful and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage. Benito Mussolini