enfranchisement
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“We still started a conversation about teen enfranchisement, and I think that’s really valuable regardless of outcome,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
But Francis also noted that the school system was “promoted by the governmental authorities at the time” as part of a policy of assimilation and enfranchisement, in which “local Catholic institutions had a part.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
When you talk with people about full enfranchisement for Black Americans that conversation usually starts in 1965 with the Voting Rights Act.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2022
But the amendment did represent the single largest act of enfranchisement in American history, and that fall, millions of American women cast their first ballots.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2020
They adopted a platform which affirmed the sovereignty of the Union, emancipation, equality of rights, enfranchisement, complete amnesty, tariff reform, civil service reform, local self-government, and impartial suffrage.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White
Vocabulary lists containing enfranchisement
Novel Study: Julius Caesar, Act 3
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Academic and Literary Vocabulary, Unit 2
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Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms, Unit 2
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