How To Use Disfranchise In A Sentence
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Sure your followers will surly vote for you those disfranchise republicans.
Palin: 'My heart goes out to Huckabee'
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Page 8 year 1904, in connection with the effort to introduce "disfranchisement" and "jim-crow" conditions into this State.
Men of Maryland
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Losing the right to vote, called disfranchisement, is most commonly caused by failing to reregister, a procedure that is required every time a person changes residence.
Franchise
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This is the real reason Cameron is against AV, as a fairer voting system would end the two-party system we have, giving a voice to many disfranchised voters.
Letters: Voting system out of touch with reality
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But the end is not yet, for we hear of other oppressive measures, such as disfranchisement and the like.
Before the War, and After the Union; An Autobiography
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It's so nice to see the hate and disfranchised exude from the greedy people who finally feel the insecurities and hopelessness of my ancestors.
Reports: Big labor leader to step down
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It means few MPs enjoy support from a majority of their constituents; elections are decided by swing voters in a few marginal constituencies; and the majority of voters feel disfranchised, especially in safe seats.
Letters: Diplomatic support for electoral reform
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Lastly, Solon decreed that all those who had been condemned by the archons to _atimy_ (civil disfranchisement) should be restored to their full privileges of citizens -- excepting, however, from this indulgence those who had been condemned by the Ephetæ, or by the Areopagus, or by the Phylo-Basileis (the four kings of the tribes), after trial in the
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
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We do not mean to imply that the two things had any connection, yet it is a fact that just about this time a movement was obtaining throughout the Southern States by which the Constitutions of very many of the States were so altered as to admit of the "disfranchisement" of the great body of colored voters in that section of the country.
History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church
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Nothing must be allowed to disfranchise manhood; and he who manumits the poet from social and ethical bonds is not logical, nor penetrative into the dark mystery of soul, nor is he the poet's friend.
A Hero and Some Other Folks
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Second, Section 5 singled out race-based denials of voting rights as the only kind of disfranchisement that justified aggressive federal protection.
Election Law
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It's so nice to see the hate and disfranchised exude from the greedy people who finally feel the insecurities and hopelessness of my ancestors.
Reports: Big labor leader to step down
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That a majority of the women of the United States accept, without protest, the disabilities which grow out of their disfranchisement is simply an evidence of their ignorance and cowardice, while the minority who demand a higher political status clearly prove their superior intelligence and wisdom.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
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The persecution policy against the Jews commenced with nonviolent measures, such as disfranchisement and discriminations against their religion, and the placing of impediments in the way of success in economic life.
Balkinization
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Further than this, it is argued that many of the disfranchised people recognize these facts.
DARKWATER
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Thirty-two states in clear terms disfranchise (or give the
Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment
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The triumph of reaction in the South inaugurated a new era in which we may distinguish three phases: the renewed attempt to reduce the Negroes to serfdom, the rise of the Negro metayer, and the economic disfranchisement of the Southern working class.
The Negro
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disfranchised," and found ourselves quartered on the enemy the next morning as the sun rose in all its resplendent glory.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
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a corporation, without a charter, such adulterine guilds, as they were called, were not always disfranchised upon that account, but obliged to fine annually to the king, for permission to exercise their usurped privileges {See Madox Firma Burgi p. 26 etc.}.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Florida has one of the strictest in the nation, and is home to one-fifth of the 5.3 million Americans disfranchised across the country.
Laughlin McDonald: Voting in Florida: From Bad to Worse
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When Pennsylvania's Constitution was revised in 1838 to disfranchise free black men in the name of expanding white manhood suffrage, young black male reformers leapt forward to challenge it.
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To disfranchise women is deliberately to turn from knowledge and grope in ignorance.
DARKWATER
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America to disfranchise Americans of the Muslim faith.
Dr Gyi
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Against this backdrop, the right-of-center government led by Netanyahu appears to be committed to disfranchise Palestinians, suppress opposition, undermine democratic values and forsake the moral tenants on which the state of Israel was created.
Alon Ben-Meir: Israel Needs a Palestinian State
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Upon paying a fine to the king, the charter seems generally to have been readily granted; and when any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such adulterine guilds, as they were called, were not always disfranchised upon that account, but obliged to fine annually to the king for permission to exercise their usurped privileges.
X. Book I. Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock
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I have taken it upon myself to challenge and confront those who would disfranchise American
Dr Gyi
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Everyone who uses those arguments has already assumed the longterm disfranchisement and marginalization of that majority of the Palestinian people forced to live in complete exile from their homeland for, in many cases, the past 60 years ...
Charlottesville Blogs
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Robert Smith, field coordinator of the Alabama Democratic Party Black Caucus explains, The current system of disfranchisement is incredibly unfair.
Election 2000 Across the South
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The Oligarchy has kicked into high gear, exploiting the social dislocations of the Great Recession to disfranchise, pulverize, bat down, and crush the working middle class.
Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats
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Page 31 disfranchised, which is a practical satire on the universal suffrage dogma to which the American negro and his particular friends have ever been so especially devoted.
The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects.
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Any member of a corporation may be disfranchised, that is, he may lose his membership in the corporation by acting in such manner as to forfeit his rights under a provision of the by-laws; or he may resign from the corporation by his own voluntary act.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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After a dozen years of halfhearted efforts to achieve political and social reform, leaders north and south agreed to end reconstruction, returning the heirs of the southern aristocracy to power and leaving African Americans disfranchised, destitute, and more racially segregated than they had been before the war.
Between War and Peace
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Voters are disfranchised all the time; Florida made the news - and the courts - only because control of the White House came down to a few votes.
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While the law asserts otherwise, Truth's activism demonstrates the capacity of disfranchised Americans to seize legal agency, to demand a voice ‘among the pettifoggers.’
