<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dacc720a-9ad1-4d9d-acdc-67717510a6bd/1563BF84-5F92-4A72-899F-BC38320446B8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suffrage&oldid=297699507" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suffrage&oldid=297699507" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suffrage&oldid=297699507"><P><I><B>Suffrage</B></I> (from the Latin <I>suffragium</I>, meaning "voting tablet", and figuratively "right to vote", and originally a term for the <A title="Pastern" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastern">pastern</A> bone used to cast votes) is the <A class="mw-redirect" title="Civil right" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_right">civil right</A> to <A class="mw-redirect" title="Vote" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote">vote</A>, or the exercise of that right. In that context, it is also called <I>political franchise</I> or simply <I>the franchise</I>. Suffrage is very valuable to the extent that there are opportunities to vote (e.g., <A class="mw-redirect" title="Initiatives" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiatives">initiatives</A>, <A class="mw-redirect" title="Referendums" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendums">referendums</A>, or <A class="mw-redirect" title="Elections" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections">elections</A>). Therefore, suffrage varies on 2 independent dimensions: who is eligible to vote and voting opportunities. Suffrage was also a part of the <A title="Jacksonian democracy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonian_democracy">Jacksonian democracy</A>. In simpler words, suffrage means <B>the right to vote</B>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1563BF84-5F92-4A72-899F-BC38320446B8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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