enfranchise

It took the 19th Amendment to enfranchise women as a matter of constitutional right.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

If voters pass the measure, it goes back to the council to decide when — if ever — to enfranchise the immigrants.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Pressure began building to enfranchise women voters in the early 20th century, notably in the southeastern state of Yucatan, said Lorenzo Meyer, a historian at the Colegio de Mexico.

From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2023

For one, advocates would do well to resist a narrow understanding of list maintenance as disenfranchising—captured by the term “voter purging”—and consider how list maintenance could enfranchise mobile voters.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2023

“Not because it enfranchises black men, but because it does not enfranchise all women, black and white.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

“What I don’t want to see is a system that enfranchises some people and not others and we need the research to really tell what happened here,” Mr. de Blasio said.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2021

Pass another voting rights act that enfranchises as many Americans as possible.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2021

“A historical atlas enfranchises the whole nation,” he said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2013

The new law, to become operative when a new Diet is elected this spring, enfranchises 9,600,000 adult males.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Not because it enfranchises black men, but because it does not enfranchise all women, black and white.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Douglass may not have held a role as a judge, legislator, or even enfranchised citizen, yet he nonetheless played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s understanding of equal citizenship in the Civil War era.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

A Republican from Montana, Rankin pushed for the 19th Amendment that enfranchised women across the country four years later.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 5, 2023

But the Electoral Commission says only one in five newly enfranchised 16 and 17-year-olds registered to vote ahead of May's local elections.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2022

On the plus side, he commends the nation’s eventual extension of political rights to far more people than the landholding white male minority enfranchised in the Revolutionary era.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2020

The Nineteenth Amendment enfranchised women, but some states quickly moved to deny nonwhite women—and men—the right to vote.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

"Those are two great examples of private sector firms enfranchising themselves in our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower."

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025

Successors Terry McAuliffe and Ralph Northam, both Democrats, went further, enfranchising about 300,000.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023

“To have the person who was always part of enfranchising the community be disenfranchised the way he was, was unconscionable,” Norton said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

As Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment enfranchising women, for example, it specifically rejected a proposal to allow only states to enforce the amendment.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2020

Miss Anthony, however, simply called attention to the record of the Republican party in the cause of human freedom, and urged them to complete it by enfranchising women, but did not take up political issues.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper