Definition of "universal suffrage" []

• Suffrage for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Fitz-Simons voted against universal suffrage and in favour of limiting it to free-holders."
• "The great moral of this reign will be to prove that universal suffrage is as senseless as the divine right although a little less odions!"
• "We know that he was wrong; universal suffrage in Germany was to make possible the Social Democrats and Ultramontanes; it was to give the Parliamentary power into the hands of an opponent far more dangerous than the Liberals of the Prussian Assembly."