Editing Suffrage (section)

====Women's suffrage====
{{Main|Women's suffrage}}
[[File:SPD-Plakat 1919.jpg|thumb|German election poster from 1919: ''Equal rights – equal duties!'']]

[[Women's suffrage]] is the right of women to vote.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suffrage |title=Definition of SUFFRAGE |website=merriam-webster.com |language=en |access-date=1 July 2019}}</ref> This was the goal of the suffragists, who believed in using legal means, as well as the [[suffragette]]s, who used extremist measures. Short-lived suffrage equity was drafted into provisions of the State of New Jersey's first, 1776 Constitution, which extended the Right to Vote to unwed female landholders and black land owners.

{{Blockquote|IV. That all inhabitants of this Colony, of full age, who are worth fifty pounds proclamation money, clear estate in the same, and have resided within the county in which they claim a vote for twelve months immediately preceding the election, shall be entitled to vote for Representatives in Council and Assembly; and also for all other public officers, that shall be elected by the people of the county at large. [[New Jersey]] ''1776''}}
However, the document did not specify an Amendment procedure, and the provision was subsequently replaced in 1844 by the adoption of the [[1844 New Jersey Constitution|succeeding constitution]], which reverted to "all white male" suffrage restrictions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/njfacts/njdoc10.htm |title=The New Jersey Constitution of 1776 |access-date=17 December 2006}}</ref>

Although the Kingdom of Hawai'i granted female suffrage in 1840, the right was rescinded in 1852. Limited voting rights were gained by some women in Sweden, Britain, and some western U.S. states in the 1860s. In 1893, the British colony of [[New Zealand]] became the first self-governing nation to extend the right to vote to all adult women.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.org.nz/study/education-centre/history/votes-for-women.html |title=Votes for Women |publisher=Electoral Commission of New Zealand |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819080640/http://www.elections.org.nz/study/education-centre/history/votes-for-women.html |archive-date=19 August 2012 |access-date=11 August 2020}}</ref> In 1894, the women of [[South Australia]] achieved the [[Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act 1894|right to both vote and stand for Parliament]]. The autonomous [[Grand Duchy of Finland]] in the [[Russian Empire]] was the first nation to allow all women to both vote and run for parliament.