QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT
1. Distinguish between citizenship and the suffrage.
2. Why is the suffrage important in a representative democracy?
3. Discuss the suffrage in colonial times.
4. What was the probable extent of the suffrage in 1789?
5. What is the doctrine of natural rights?
6. How was this doctrine applied to the question of the suffrage?
7. Why was the suffrage in the eastern states widened in the nineteenth century?
8. Discuss the suffrage in the new West.
9. Describe the enfranchisement of the Negro.
10. Outline the early development of the woman suffrage movement.
11. Discuss the decline of the natural rights theory.
12. Outline some recent shifts in the suffrage movement.
13. Enumerate the present restrictions on the right to vote.
14. What is the present status of the suffrage movement?
15. What is meant by saying that the suffrage is a privilege and not a right?
16. What is meant by saying that "fitness" is the basis of the suffrage?
17. What can be said as to the question of Negro suffrage?
18. To what extent does intelligent voting depend upon actual exercise of the ballot?