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enfranchisement

[en-fran-chahyz-muhnt, -chiz-] / ɛnˈfræn tʃaɪz mənt, -tʃɪz- /






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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

Thus the Irish disfranchisement balances the English enfranchisement.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)




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