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What is universal suffrage?

What is universal suffrage? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The right to vote in a political election for all citizens who have attained the age of majority and are not disenfranchised under the laws of the country.
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Marx and Engels supported the Chartists' campaign for universal suffrage and for factory legislation to reduce the working day.
In 1944, with the granting of a new constitution, Jamaicans gained universal suffrage.
The agreement provided for qualified majority rule and elections with universal suffrage.
Yet universal suffrage has failed to deliver the results which even Karl Marx once thought it might.
This erupted in Belgium in 1891, 1893 and 1902, winning universal suffrage.
The last general election saw the lowest turnout since universal suffrage was introduced.

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