Universal manhood suffrage — the right to an equal vote for all adult males, regardless of racial, economic or literacy conditions, as adopted by some Spanish American countries in the 1850s, at a time when very few countries in the Western world had done so — is the subject of this article. It considers in more detail the experience of New Granada (Colombia), with some comparative references, especially to Argentina and Mexico, in the wider context of the 1848 European revolutions. It offers a novel contribution to the wider historiography of suffrage while also contributing to a growing literature that seeks to decentre the history of democracy. Additionally, in as much as issues related to suffrage were central to the process of constitution-making, what we detail here has some bearing on the renewed interest in constitutional history. While this is above all an engagement with history, it is hoped that its findings will have relevance to theoretical discussions among social scientists on the expansion of suffrage.

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西班牙美洲的民主：1810-1853 年普遍男性选举权的早期采用

普选权——在 1850 年代一些西班牙裔美国人国家采用的所有成年男性，无论种族、经济或文化条件如何，都享有平等投票权，当时西方世界很少有国家这样做——是本文的主题。它更详细地考虑了新格拉纳达（哥伦比亚）的经验，并在 1848 年欧洲革命的更广泛背景下提供了一些比较参考，特别是对阿根廷和墨西哥的参考。它为更广泛的选举权历史编纂提供了新的贡献，同时也为寻求去中心化民主历史的不断增长的文学做出了贡献。此外，尽管与选举权有关的问题是制宪过程的核心，但我们在此详述的内容与人们对宪法历史的重新兴趣有一定的关系。