Concept in Definition ABC

The term suffrage is known to the person who performs the act of fulfilling a suffrage or vote. As with other words such as 'president' or 'singer', the term 'suffragant' refers to an act that is is performing at the moment and that supposes an action, or in other words' the one who is performing or complying with his suffrage'.

The term suffragant, as you can imagine, has very different characteristics according to the region of the world in which we find ourselves, since being an action that supposes certain responsibilitypolitics and ethics, those who vote must have some requirements that may vary depending on the place (for example, a certain age, origin, knowledge, ability, etc.). In almost all the countries in which the figure of the voter exists, it applies only to adults over 18 or 21 years since it is considered that only after that age an individual is capable of forming a serious political vision. In some countries, such as Argentina, this requirement has recently been altered to include young people from the age of 16 in the suffrage status (although not mandatory).

The suffragette is a person who has the duty moral and politician of take part in elections or suffrage of his country. Thus, it is understood as duty since it is not a activity any if not that represents certain responsibilities and that the same, therefore, should be taken seriously. However, we cannot speak of a voter who does not fulfill his duty since an individual only becomes a voter at the moment he casts his vote. In other words, that act is the condition to become such.

The act of voting is a right of great importance for any democracy since it is with him that the election of the rulers in the hands of the people can be carried out. This political and collective action is relatively recent in world history, there being no existed before the nineteenth century anywhere in the world (although something similar already existed in Greece Ancient).