disfranchisement
IPA: dɪsfrˈæntʃaɪzmʌnt
noun
- The act of disfranchising.
- The deprivation of the privileges and immunities of citizenship.
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Examples of "disfranchisement" in Sentences
- But the end is not yet, for we hear of other oppressive measures, such as disfranchisement and the like.
- Page 8 year 1904, in connection with the effort to introduce "disfranchisement" and "jim-crow" conditions into this State.
- Robert Smith, field coordinator of the Alabama Democratic Party Black Caucus explains, The current system of disfranchisement is incredibly unfair.
- Second, Section 5 singled out race-based denials of voting rights as the only kind of disfranchisement that justified aggressive federal protection.
- Losing the right to vote, called disfranchisement, is most commonly caused by failing to reregister, a procedure that is required every time a person changes residence.
- The persecution policy against the Jews commenced with nonviolent measures, such as disfranchisement and discriminations against their religion, and the placing of impediments in the way of success in economic life.
- Everyone who uses those arguments has already assumed the longterm disfranchisement and marginalization of that majority of the Palestinian people forced to live in complete exile from their homeland for, in many cases, the past 60 years ...
- That a majority of the women of the United States accept, without protest, the disabilities which grow out of their disfranchisement is simply an evidence of their ignorance and cowardice, while the minority who demand a higher political status clearly prove their superior intelligence and wisdom.
- We do not mean to imply that the two things had any connection, yet it is a fact that just about this time a movement was obtaining throughout the Southern States by which the Constitutions of very many of the States were so altered as to admit of the "disfranchisement" of the great body of colored voters in that section of the country.
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