a.1900, Thomas Nugent, The Spirit of Laws, translation of original by Charles Baron De Montesquieu, page 12:
It is a question of some importance whether the suffrages ought to be public or secret.
1613, Thomas Fitzherbert, An adioynder to the Supplement of Father Robert Persons his Discussion of M. Doctor Barlowes Ansvvere &c:
For wheras the principall point which the Cardinall sought to prove thereby, was that Kinges could have no voyce, or suffrage in the definition of Ecclesiasticall matters,
1787, US Constitution, Article V:
no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
