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...

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...

offer citizens the opportunity to write, propose, and vote on referendums; other states and the federal government have not. Referendums in the United Kingdom...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

methods, in the United States government. Corruption in the United States has been a perennial political issue, peaking in the Jacksonian era and the Gilded...

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...

In the United States, each state and territory sets the age of consent either by statute or the common law applies, and there are several federal statutes...

Britain granted limited suffrage to women property holders, the law did not apply to British citizens in other parts of the Empire. Despite petitions...

regulated at state level. The constitution states that suffrage cannot be denied on grounds of race or color, sex, or age for citizens eighteen years or older...

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...

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...

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...