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right to vote

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. right to vote, vote, suffragenoun

    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"

Wikipedia

  1. Right to Vote

    Right to Vote was formed in January 2019 as a group of Conservative MPs and peers who advocated holding a second referendum on Brexit. In summer 2019, the group folded.Right to Vote was founded in the aftermath of the UK government losing the first meaningful vote on its withdrawal agreement with the EU.

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  1. right to vote

    The right to vote, also known as suffrage or franchise, is a fundamental democratic principle that refers to a citizen's eligibility to participate in the election process to choose their representatives in the government or make decisions on public policies or legislation. It's a legal right typically granted to citizens of a certain age and is considered a crucial tool for political expression and social change.

Editors Contribution

  1. right to vote

    The right enacted into law and legislation of a country or jurisdiction that gives all citizens of a specific legal age the authority to vote in a public election or public referendum.

    All countries of the world have a right to vote at the United Nations.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 21, 2021  

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of right to vote in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of right to vote in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of right to vote in a Sentence

  1. Rich Trumka:

    Without the right to vote, there is no democracy. Without the right to form a union, there is no democracy. Nothing less than our freedom is on the line.

  2. Nikole Hannah-Jones:

    Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates are at a critical juncture in Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates democracy, and yet Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates press does not reflect the nation it serves and too often struggles to grasp the danger for Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates country as Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates see growing attacks on free speech and the fundamental right to vote, in the storied tradition of the Black press, the Center for Journalism and Democracy will help produce journalists capable of accurately and urgently covering the challenges of our democracy with a clarity, skepticism, rigor and historical dexterity that is too often missing from today's journalism.

  3. Ronald Reagan:

    I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment limiting the presidency to two terms was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him

  4. Sean Morales-Doyle:

    People on parole live and work in our cities and towns, and by automatically restoring their right to vote, New York is finally welcoming them as full participants in society. That's a crucial change, one that will ameliorate one of the vestiges of Jim Crow, due to the racial disparities in New York's criminal justice system, nearly three-quarters of those disenfranchised by the ban on voting for people on parole were Black or Latino.

  5. Heath Flora:

    The state over the years has tried to give 17-year-olds the right to vote and 12-year-olds the right to make medical decisions, but we do not want to prosecute criminals as adults until they're age 25 because their brains are not fully developed.


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