disfranchised

How To Use disfranchised In A Sentence

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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.’
• 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