enfranchisement
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The implication isn't hard to suss out: if women use our enfranchisement to vote for our rights, then we're somehow "abusing" our right to vote.
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2024
Throughout the 1970s, the pursuit of public aid, affirmative action and political enfranchisement was funneled by federal policymakers into private enterprise.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2023
“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 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
There even were signs, as in some writers already mentioned and in Roger de Coll�rye, a lackpenny but light-hearted singer of the early part of the century, of definite enfranchisement in verse.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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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