what is the meaning of suffrage?
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To have suffrage is to have the right to vote. It comes from the Latin word suffragium, which means voting tablet or the vote itself, and eventually came to mean the right to vote itself. For instance the Italian provinces were admitted to citizenship "sine suffrago," without the right to vote.
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The ballot is the card you fill out to vote for individual offices.  I think you are asking about the electoral college, which is a group of people selected to cast votes for the president based upon the way the population of a state voted.  However, not all states are required to distribute ballots in the college based on the way the state voted.  Essentially the college was first created because we couldn't let farmers and immigrants who could not read and write truly select who wins an election.  Still around for the same reason today...too many stupid people get a choice.
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I guess I'm wondering what the alternative would be??\n\nThe "one man, one vote" form of democracy we now enjoy, is only about a century old. Before that, the ability to vote, or the number of votes one could cast, depended on ones wealth and, usually, how much one could pay in taxes.\n\nIn 1959, in Baker v. Carr, the Supreme Court said it was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause to make one person's vote count less than another's.
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I believe it means the percentage of people 18 and over who are registered to vote... because not all people over 18 are eligible to register to vote or vote in general... this includes certain prisoners, or people who have certain criminal voters, or people who are not US citizens.\n\n--They have the actual number of people registered and the people who vote (so it would be easier to calculate the percentage from that)... since they can't always estimate how many people are elegible to vote (from those 18+), from the whole US population...
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In my personal opinon I feel that your question can be answered on your definition of democracy.  Many political philosophers from the past such as Hobbes, Locke, Mill, and Rousseau express societies responsibility differently.  \n\nOn one side you can define democracy as "the principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community (American Heritage Dictionary)."  If this is the case then who has the right to tell another person what they can and cannot do.  The individual must be respected and must have a freedom as described in J.S. Mill's works "Utilitarianism" and "On Liberty."  He believes that people should be granted the maximum amount of freedom in oder to be happy and that other people should not interfere.\n\nWih that another definition of democracy is when "the common people, considered as the primary source of political power (American Heritage Dictionary)." According to Hobbes, Rousseau, and even Locke people should have a freedom to do what they like but not at the cost of violating the laws of nature or at the possibility of being a danger to society. If society dictates that abortion is bad, well for the sake of maintaining a stable society people within that society should adhere to the laws passed by the majority.\n\nWell thats my two cents.....
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par·tic·i·pa·to·ry (pär-tĭs'ə-pə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) \n\nadj.\n\nMarked by, requiring, or involving participation, especially affording the opportunity for individual participation: a participatory democracy.
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informed voting is knowing who the candidates or issues are, and pros and cons of each, rather than just choosing based on party (democratic or republican) or something.
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It should not be. Nor do I think voting should be a requirement to voice your opinion.\n\nA vote is saying that you affirmatively approve one candidate over another. If none of the people on the ballot are ones that I actually support, I wouldn't vote for them.\n\nHowever, because I am still stuck with whatever laws the majority-elected government chooses to enact,  I absolutely have the right to voice my opinion about those. Especially since I don't actually have the opportunity to vote for most of those laws directly.
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The most important benefactor to the voting process is the person doing the voting. There is a disconnect between those who don't vote and the society around themselves. It's a symptom of diminished self-image ..... ie., "My voice isn't important enough to count," vs. "Even if my voice isn't heard by the masses, I'll speak up." As for me, I hate politics, but I love our system. I don't believe in being a victim by default. Hey look, I spoke up. Does this count as a vote?
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It refers to parlimentary procedure.  It is a way of organizing meetings in large groups so that they don't get out of hand.  Someone moving to vote, means that they are suggesting that the group vote on the issue, and the person seconding the motion, means that they agree with the first person.
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Democracy is a form of government where the population of a society controls the government.\n\nWiki has pages of infromation.
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First off, do you agree with women's suffrage ? I know I totally agree with women's suffrage.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage
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~Suffrage and representation.
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Yes, it is.  (It's also a republic, capitalist, etc.)  It's not a "direct" democracy in the sense of submitting everything to a direct vote of the people, but the people do have ultimate power.  As a practical matter, the people frequently don't exercise the power they have -- they often don't bother voting, or don't educate themselves on issues -- but the power is there if they choose.
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The Suffragettes wanted the right for women to vote. \n\nThe move for women to have the vote had really started in 1897 when Millicent Fawcett founded the National Union of Women's Suffrage. "Suffrage" means the right to vote and that is what women wanted - hence its inclusion in Fawcett's title.\n\nMillicent Fawcett believed in peaceful protest.
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democracy. we control who we vote for and we speak through that person though it dosen seem like it sometimes
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Ballot voting is when everyone gets a chance to vote once and they add up the results.