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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
How To Use right to vote In A Sentence
- Associate members do not have the right to vote.
- How long did it take for women to get the right to vote?
- I give more credit to the nameless women who settled the frontier and thus earned the right to vote in western states.
- Derived from the Old French word franc, meaning “free,” it later came to be associated with the most fundamental political freedom of all: to exercise your franchise meant to exercise your right to vote. The Sack of Washington
- He became a citizen, thereby gaining the right to vote.
- Everyone over 18 has the right to vote.
- In some developed countries too, women were accorded the right to vote very late.
- We demand an immediate restoration of our right to vote.
- The true differential is that the so-called “right to vote” is actaully a privilege conferred on the individual by the soceity/government. The Volokh Conspiracy » Violent Misdemeanants, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Right to Vote
- The right to vote should also include the right not to vote. Times, Sunday Times
