manhood suffrage

noun

1. the right of adult male citizens to vote

Example Sentences

Witness all the Reform Acts in 19th Century Britain and the decision of French liberals in 1848 to approve universal manhood suffrage.

From Salon

Mr Shindler lost a number of court battles over the years and in 2012 threatened to take his case to the United Nations, saying that the law was in contravention of the "universal" right of "manhood suffrage".

From BBC

The initial goal of the movement for parliamentary reform, Andress tells us, was "to gain a political voice through manhood suffrage – but it implied sweeping away all the structures of the existing order, and as their numbers grew, so too did the perceived threat they posed."

From The Guardian

So indeed they were: those who demanded universal manhood suffrage and annual parliaments believed, reasonably enough, that only these two measures could put an end to the system of institutionalised bribery by which the aristocracy enjoyed a near-monopoly of political power.

From The Guardian

A few of those in the reform movement were indeed republicans, but it's unlikely that many wanted more than annual parliaments and universal manhood suffrage, and it seems clear that the more republican a radical society became, the tinier its membership.

From The Guardian