disfranchise
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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
By this law the number of voters was reduced from 9,936,004 to 6,809,281, disfranchising 3,126,723 electors who had the right of voting for the present Government.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
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 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
But there was the clause of Mr. Turnbull to be dealt with,—a clause directly disfranchising seven single-winged boroughs, of which Loughton was of course one,—a clause to which the Government must either submit or object.
From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Trollope, Anthony
