disenfranchisement

Examples from literature

For the edification of the possible reader who is entirely uninformed, it may be explained that women are not entirely disenfranchised in the United States. 

disenfranchise | American Dictionary

disenfranchise
verb[ T ]
us/ˌdɪs·ənˈfræn·tʃɑɪz/
politics & government
to take away a person’s right to vote

Examples of disenfranchise

disenfranchise
Both the refugees and those who became politically disenfranchised joined the ranks of stateless persons.
If certain combinations of votes were rejected as inadmissible, they would be effectively disenfranchised.
As may be seen on the personnel chart, the artist is placed there in a strange position, seemingly disenfranchised of the operating structure.
Indeed, the political empowerment of previously disenfranchised groups makes them a more permanent and potent force leaning against reversal.
One objection is that presumed consent takes away individual autonomy and that people will be disenfranchised from their own bodies.
In this view, institutions may empower or disenfranchise specific interests.
First, it provides one instance of how issues usually restricted to the domestic sphere could produce new opportunities for the politically disenfranchised.
To be consistent, we must be willing to condemn infringements on the rights of the disenfranchised at home as well as abroad.
To disenfranchised ex-samurai, it was a warm tropical paradise, a territory in which to gain personal achievements and fulfill a sense of adventure.
The program intensified economic insecurity of households, and by targeting men disenfranchised women, ignoring their rights over livestock and undermining local initiatives and autonomy.
The memorialist is one who has been disinherited or disenfranchised.
Refugees and the politically disenfranchised were enumerated, classified, controlled, isolated, forcibly employed, resettled or even jailed.
This would be a logic of belonging to the 'others' to those who have been conquered, disenfranchised, dispossessed.
A full understanding of political development requires attentiveness to dialectics shaped by minority parties, by individuals who were defeated, even by groups which history sometimes caricatures as disenfranchised.
To be sure, active participation in local government remained the prerogative of the middle and lower middle classes, but the propertyless and disenfranchised working classes would benefit from this, too.
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