enfranchisement
Example Sentences
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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
When I first started reading about Guam, I imagined the solution was enfranchisement, voting rights, equal opportunity under the law, statehood: more so-called American ideals.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 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 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
We know what their meaning is—they imply enfranchisement and a freehold estate of inheritance.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
