disfranchise
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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
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
In fact, Smith's ruling passion is to disfranchise all monopolies that concentrate and protect hoarded capital.
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
The assembly now took matters in its own hands and changed the method of elections, so that many large landholders were practically disfranchised.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
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
The constitutionality of these disfranchising enactments has not been made a direct issue in the Supreme Court of the United States.
From The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 by John L. Love
Amendment to the Federal Constitution that shall prohibit the States from disfranchising any of their citizens on account of sex.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lord Backwoods has been speaking to his constituents against the Bill for disfranchising Conscientious Obstructionists of the Mental Progress Acts.
From What Not A Prophetic Comedy by Dame Rose Macaulay
