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What is expanded suffrage

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Suffrage is the right to vote, and, in a sense, the history of the United States is the story of the expansion of that right. The founders were extremely wary of democracy as they understood it, and believed that only men of substance should have a say in who ran the government.
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Suffrage is the right to vote, and, in a sense, the history of the United States is the story of the expansion of that right.

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