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SUFFRAGE (Lat. suffragium)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 30 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SUFFRAGE (See also:Lat. suffragium) , the right or the exercise of the right of voting in See also:political affairs; in a more See also:general sense, an expression of See also:opinion, assent or approval; in ecclesiastical use, the See also:short intercessory prayers in litanies spoken or sung by the See also:people as distinguished from those of the See also:priest or See also:minister. (See See also:REPRESENTATION; See also:VOTE AND VOTING, and See also:REGISTRATION: and, for the See also:Women's Suffrage See also:Movement, WOMEN: § Political Rights.) The See also:etymology of the Latin word suffragium has been much discussed. It is usually referred to sub- and the See also:root of frangere, to break, and its See also:original meaning must thus have been a piece of broken See also:tile or a potsherd' on which the names or See also:initials of the candidates were inscribed and used as a voting tablet or tabella. There is, however, no See also:direct See also:evidence that this was ever the practice in the See also:case of voting upon legislation in the See also:assembly (see W. See also:Corssen, Ueber Aussprache, &c., der Lateinischen Sprache, i. 397, and See also:Mommsen, Romische Geschichte, Iii. 412 11.1.).

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