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enfranchisement

[en-fran-chahyz-muhnt, -chiz-] / ɛnˈfræn tʃaɪz mənt, -tʃɪz- /






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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

One associated his name with the enfranchisement of labor, with the emancipation of millions, with the salvation of the Republic.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green




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