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
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
In fact, Smith's ruling passion is to disfranchise all monopolies that concentrate and protect hoarded capital.
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
Amersham was a parliamentary borough by prescription, but by the Reform Bill of 1832, is now disfranchised.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
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 New York that year there was a definite enactment disfranchising them.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Ida Husted Harper
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 John L. Love
The fifth section of it furnishes a true index to the spirit which is behind all of these disfranchising enactments.
From The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 by John L. Love
