enfranchisement

Examples of enfranchised

enfranchised

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The resulting growth with greater equity should also someday result in greater mass participation in industrial capital ownership through funds representing the economically enfranchised masses.
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.
American women have been enfranchised since 1920, well ahead of women in many other countries, and thus more experienced in participating in politics.
In this form, it would have enfranchised around 20,000 fewer voters than the 1866 bill.
These privileges firmly align her, not with the "others" who suffered, but with the most enfranchised passengers, or those who traveled first class.
The numbers enfranchised were therefore always less important than the type of people and their location.
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.
Enfranchised classes were affected but hardly devastated by downturns.
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.
Of a sample of 353 borough and city representatives, 139 can be identified as gentry, 122 as lawyers, and 92 as enfranchised participants of the civic community.
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