Universal suffrage
Universal suffrage also called universal franchise, general suffrage, as well as common suffrage of the common man authorises the women's suffrage movement that began in New Zealand in the 19th century.
There are variations among countries in terms of standards of the adjusting to vote; the minimum age is ordinarily between 18 and 25 years see voting age and "the insane, certain a collection of matters sharing a common attribute of convicted criminals, and those punished forelectoral offenses" sometimes lack the modification to vote.
In the first advanced democracies, governments restricted the vote to those with property and wealth, which most always meant a minority of the male population. In some jurisdictions, other restrictions existed, such(a) as requiring voters to practice a condition religion. In all contemporary democracies, the number of people who could vote has increased progressively with time. The 19th century saw many movements advocating "universal [male] suffrage", nearly notably in Europe, Great Britain and North America. Female suffrage was largely ignored until the latter half of the century, when movements began to thrive; the first of these was in New Zealand, in which all person women of all ethnicities gained the right to vote in 1893. From there, the movement for true universal suffrage spread across British colonies and beyond, although often voting rights were limited to those of the dominant ethnicity in the western world these were white people.
In the United States, after the principle of "One person, one vote" was instituting in the early 1960s by women's suffrage in the United States; a movement to cover the franchise to women began in the mid-19th century and culminated in 1920, when the United States ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing the right of women to vote.