enfranchisement

enfranchise | American Dictionary

enfranchise
verb[ T ]
us/ɪnˈfrænˌtʃɑɪz/
politics & government
to give a person or group of people the right to vote in elections

enfranchisement

noun[ U ]us/ɪnˈfræn·tʃɑɪz·mənt/

Examples of enfranchise

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Depending on who was enfranchised and where, reform could turn a rural constituency into an industrial one or swamp a manufacturing town with agricultural votes.
For those who were born before 1907, women over 35 and all men have been counted as having been enfranchised since 1918.
Rather, it was designed to enfranchise new interest groups not associated with the ruling party who had previously been excluded from the policy process.
American women have been enfranchised since 1920, well ahead of women in many other countries, and thus more experienced in participating in politics.
The computer, an "intrinsically rhetorical device," enfranchises the free play and experimentation that pervade postmodern arts and letters' (jacket).
In this form, it would have enfranchised around 20,000 fewer voters than the 1866 bill.
The numbers enfranchised were therefore always less important than the type of people and their location.
In this case imagining place and enfranchising people is less about dance, movement and poetics than about righting inequality, promoting economic regeneration and achieving sustainability.
Depending on who was enfranchised and where, different reform bills could produce quite different electorates, making consensus elusive.
Women were by then enfranchised citizens and had a more prominent, if still very restricted, presence in public life and in parliament.
Among other changes, women were enfranchised and received unprecedented access to a new state structure, founded on a constitution promising much in the way of gender equality.
What did the social networks look like under different legal regimes, in towns well enfranchised, in larger towns and smaller and in later moments when oligarchy was triumphant?
Mundella at the same time linked factory legislation to the claims of recently enfranchised working men, positioned as partners of enlightened employers and of an expanded liberal state.
The problem with the property-based local franchise was not the loss of liberal credibility it entailed amongst the disenfranchised, but the disproportionate weight it rendered to the enfranchised.
These will ensure that head leaseholders cannot speculatively enfranchise and that broom cupboards cannot be used as units to prevent enfranchisement.
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