enfranchisement

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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

Throughout the 1970s, the pursuit of public aid, affirmative action and political enfranchisement was funneled by federal policymakers into private enterprise.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 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 the amendment did represent the single largest act of enfranchisement in American history, and that fall, millions of American women cast their first ballots.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2020

Thus the Irish disfranchisement balances the English enfranchisement.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)