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
It might decide, for example, that in North Carolina, where 631,000 citizens disfranchise 331,000, the government is not republican, and should be made so by extending the franchise.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio
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 abolition movement was an interracial radical social movement of disfranchised people, men and women, white and black, free and enslaved.
From Time ● Jun. 17, 2016
Under the act of 1832 the county returned three members and Weobley was disfranchised.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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
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
He thought that opposition to its third section was a rebuke to those States which had passed laws disfranchising rebels.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio
The Constitution of Mississippi has served as the pattern for the disfranchising enactments of South Carolina and Louisiana.
From The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 by Love, John L.
Then, again, an Act of Parliament was passed disfranchising the class of voters in Ireland who were called the Forty-shilling Freeholders, who formed a large proportion of O'Connell's constituents.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
