disfranchise

Since Pickering thinks the youngsters got it right, his solution is to disfranchise the geezers:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2016

In fact, Smith's ruling passion is to disfranchise all monopolies that concentrate and protect hoarded capital.

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

Then she asked the question, 'What were "disfranchise" mean?'

From Time Magazine Archive

Or if a State should prescribe as a qualification for the ballot such an ownership of property, real or personal, as would disfranchise the great body of her people, could not Congress most undoubtedly interfere?

From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

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 matter was referred to the Queen in Council, and he was ordered to be fined £100, to be disfranchised and turned out of the town.

From England in the Days of Old by William Andrews

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

In other words, there was one majority for disfranchising just one-half the meeting, counting the above man; and this, too, on the principle that the majority ought to rule.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

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

A sixteenth amendment to the national constitution, prohibiting the States from disfranchising United States citizens on the ground of sex, will be urged upon the forty-sixth congress by petitions, arguments and appeals.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton