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Women suffrage was the restriction of women to vote in any type of political election. It also was keeping women out of being elected into office or to hold a place in an either major or minor appointive seat in the government. Women in the United States made the fight for suffrage their most fundamental demand because they saw it as the defining feature of full citizenship. The philosophy underlying women's suffrage was the belief in "natural rights" to govern themselves and choose their own representatives. Womanâ€