Voting Rights Vocabulary

A formal document allowing a state to choose its own government

• Declaration of Independence

• Suffrage

• Constitution

• Amendment

Choosing what you like best

• Declaration of Independence

• citizenship

• Voting

• suffrage

Stop from happening

• discrimination

• voting rights

• constitution

• prohibit

Act that makes discrimination illegal

• Civil Rights Acts

• suffrage

• voting rights

• discrimination

A change or addition to a law

• voting rights

• amendment

• citizenship

• prohibit

Unfair treatment of someone who is different

• constitution

• suffrage

• discrimination

• amendment

Being a citizen of a country

• Declaration of Independence

• citizenship

• voting rights

• Civil Rights Act

A person's legal right to vote

• voting

• suffrage

• voting rights act

• amendment

The right to vote

• amendment

• discrimination

• suffrage

• constitution

Written laws and rights of citizens

• constitution

• prohibit

• suffrage

• citizenship