The right to vote
The right to vote (English: Suffrage, from Latin: suffragium, meaning to vote), in the process of democracy, means the right to citizenship in relation to elections, or the exercise of that right, also known as public rights (legal franchise, the franchise , Also translated as a political power). In a democratic society, the right to vote, in addition to the voting rights at the time of election, also includes the right to be a candidate. The right to be a candidate for a candidate, sometimes called a candidate eligibility, has the right to vote and to be elected, called full suffrage. This word can be traced back to the French ancestor of the Franks as a free man. In history, there have been a large number of people, because of the feudal lords or other reasons do not have the identity of the free people, and not the right to vote. This exclusionary practice is sometimes expressly provided for in the prescriptions; sometimes it does not seem to have preceded the exclusion of the right to vote (for example, before the enactment of the Bill of Rights in the United States, Calling for the exclusion of the right to be liberated by the slaves. Sometimes some groups have the right to vote, but because of the electoral system or the government system factors make their votes and other groups are not equal. The laws of the democratic government are usually produced by universal suffrage. ...