Non-citizen suffrage in the United States has been greatly reduced over time and historically has been a contentious issue. Before 1926, as many as 40...

Suffrage, the right to vote, is sometimes extended to non-citizens. This right varies widely by place in terms of which non-citizens are allowed to vote...

Non-citizen suffrage in Switzerland is an ongoing political issue in the country. Switzerland is a federal nation. As such, the cantons have extensive...

discretion to establish qualifications for suffrage and candidacy within its own respective jurisdiction; in addition, states and lower level jurisdictions establish...

Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various...

the amendment "does not confer the right of suffrage to anyone," but it "invests citizens of the United States with the right of exemption from discrimination...

Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes...

minorities as well as, in some cases (notoriously South Africa under apartheid and Rhodesia) black majorities. Suffrage in the United States has had many advances...

necessarily have the right to vote. 1876 Native Americans are ruled non-citizens and ineligible to vote by the Supreme Court of the United States. Virginia amends...

voters. The Court also stated that the amendment does not confer the right of suffrage, but it invests citizens of the United States with the right of...

vote" principle. For many, the term universal suffrage assumes the exclusion of the young and non-citizens (among others). At the same time, some insist that...

Women's suffrage was established in the United States on a full or partial basis by various towns, counties, states, and territories during the latter...

states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State...

2020 presidential election on account of a felony conviction, 1 in 44 citizens. As suffrage rights are generally bestowed by state law, state felony disenfranchisement...

territory are United States citizens by birthright. The sole exception is American Samoa, where individuals are typically non-citizen U.S. nationals...

Native American women influenced early women's suffrage activists in the United States. The Iroquois nations, which had an egalitarian society, were visited...

Territory in 1869. Areas with the most visible women's suffrage movements were Great Britain and in the United States, although women's suffrage movements...

originally had universal suffrage in 1840, rescinded this in 1852 and was subsequently annexed by the United States in 1898. In the years after 1869, a number...

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the 1850s, its main political rival has been the...

suffrage for women. 1870 United States – Utah Territory passed a law granting women's suffrage. Utah women citizens voted in municipal elections that...

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive...

citizens some states still found ways to deny them the right to vote. One example is when the Arizona Supreme Court denied citizenship and suffrage to...

Art in the women's suffrage movement of the United States played a critical role. Art was used both as propaganda and as a way to represent the leaders...

today, the United States had a free press, an honest federal judiciary, and citizen activists who led the reaction against corruption in the early 20th...

born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside...

include poor European-American men ("universal manhood suffrage"), in a shift that began the move away from a society stratified by wealth, to one which...

District of Columbia of the United States of America in central North America. The term excludes the only two non-contiguous states, which are Alaska and Hawaii...

The United States had an official estimated resident population of 334,914,895 on July 1, 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This figure includes...

continuance and systems of responsibility with other humans and the non-human world. According to Citizen Potawatomi philosopher Kyle Powys Whyte, collective continuance...

In the United States, education is provided in public and private schools and by individuals through homeschooling. State governments set overall educational...