Voting Rights and Suffrage/History/Country sources/Philippines
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What is the oldest written source in this country that mentions this right?
Philippines
Article 5 of the Constitution of the Philippines concerns suffrage, stating that citizens over the age of 18 that have resided in the country for the previous year are entitled to vote. Article 6 states that the members of the Senate, House of Representatives, and the President are elected to office by universal suffrage. (Constitute Project, “ Philippines’s Constitution of 1987” ).