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

“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

The Voting Rights Act set off a wave of enfranchisement of Black citizens, with more than 250,000 registering to vote before the end of 1965.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2021

Happiness, pure and unspeakable, descended into her soul from the sparkling canopy of night This was her holiday, her hour of enfranchisement from the fetters of toil and study.

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von