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disfranchise

[dis-fran-chahyz] / dɪsˈfræn tʃaɪz /




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Since Pickering thinks the youngsters got it right, his solution is to disfranchise the geezers:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2016

Then she asked the question, 'What were "disfranchise" mean?'

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, Smith's ruling passion is to disfranchise all monopolies that concentrate and protect hoarded capital.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whom he can and will support Senator Johnson did not say but few of his followers expected him to disfranchise himself election day.

From Time Magazine Archive

The proposal therefore to disfranchise any class of men is as criminal as the proposal to take away property.

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine

Typically, “the Court’s cases neither name nor quote the disfranchised, erasing their voices from law’s past.”

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

Soumahoro says with a smile that he will have the "best suntan" in parliament, but is adamant that he intends to speak for the poor and disfranchised, regardless of their colour.

From Reuters ● Oct. 12, 2022

By 1846, residents of Alexandria had grown irritated over being disfranchised, and political control of that area returned to Virginia.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2019

This both encouraged a more egalitarian discourse and made it possible for the voices of the previously disfranchised to be heard.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2018

Their clients were the poor, the lowly, the disfranchised, the unprivileged, against whom the grandeurs of the world lifted a heavy hand.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

But it is difficult to fathom the logic of disfranchising citizens because they were poorly served by politically controlled schools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2016

It’s reasonable to conclude, then, that the Harsanyi plan would have the intended effect of disfranchising a substantial minority of eligible citizens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2016

It started a series of efforts that have affected the whole northern mind at least; and in Jackson's time the matter came up in Congress, and a law was passed disfranchising a duelist.

From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon

In the other four disfranchising states, as well as all other Southern states, they are in the minority.

From The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) by Charles C. Cook

In other words, there was one majority for disfranchising just one-half the meeting, counting the above man; and this, too, on the principle that the majority ought to rule.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper


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