A borough had been disfranchised for inveterate corruption in the first Parliament of George IV.
They proceeded to suppress the newspapers that were against them, disfranchised the voters who had signed opposing or reactionary petitions, and closed the barriers.
They elected the legislature by direct universal suffrage, disfranchiseddomestic servants, and made the ballot optional, and therefore illusory.
In the preceding year, when he was quaestor, they had deprived him of his horse, removed him from his tribe, and disfranchised him, on account of the conspiracy entered into at Cannae to abandon Italy.
Too late you now endeavour to evince your regard for her when degraded, disfranchised from the rights of citizens, and become the slaves of the Carthaginians.
It follows that, when the commonwealth of Florence disfranchised the whole of the noble families, it lost its right to be called a democracy.
Thus arose many of the wretched little boroughs in Cornwall and elsewhere which were disfranchised by our successive Reform Bills.
By the act of Henry the Sixth, which disfranchised tens of thousands of electors who had not forty shilling freeholds.
By the act of George the Fourth, which disfranchised tens of thousands of electors who had not ten pound freeholds.
Everybody knows that the unsparing manner in which he disfranchised small boroughs was emulously applauded, by royalists, who hated him for having pulled down one dynasty, and by republicans, who hated him for having founded another.
They were in generaldisfranchised and forbidden to hold office or to practise law.
For after the accession of William and Mary had made the Episcopal Church supreme in New York and Maryland, the Catholic inhabitants of those colonies weredisfranchised and made the subject of various oppressive enactments.
But these disfranchised men did not become Periœki or Helots.
No one has expressed this more convincingly than a Negro who was himself a member of the Reconstruction legislature of South Carolina, and who spoke at the convention which disfranchised him against one of the onslaughts of Tillman.
Would there not possibly arise a disposition on the part of the disfranchised minority to pursue on the next occasion a wrecking policy such as has distinguished the second ballots both in Belgium and in France?
The minority under the present system is not only disfranchised but penalised; the representation which is due to them is given to their opponents.
If anybody had gone down at the eleventh hour and polled one good vote, he would have beaten both candidates and disfranchised the borough.
In these organizations the voice of the disfranchised classes was articulate for the first time.
Elsewhere property qualifications were imposed which disfranchisedprobably about one third of the adult male population.
We have disfranchisedthe aristocrats of the air, and have given one country to mankind.
We have disfranchised the aristocrats of the air and have given one country to mankind.
This supplemental bill superadds an oath, to be taken by every person before his name can be admitted upon the registration, that he has "not been disfranchised for participation in any rebellion or civil war against the United States.
No one who has been disfranchised for participation in any rebellion against the United States or for felony committed against the laws of any State or of the United States can take this oath.
While scores of thousands of disfranchised Jews were fighting for the prestige of Russia in the Far East, the whip of rightlessness did not cease to lash their brethren at home.
This prayer, like that of the 7,000, met the fate of all attempts of disfranchised classes to influence legislation.
A spirited editorial in the New York Independent was based upon the following facts, given by request of some of the disfranchised women: Rev.
Has not this right been to them a beneficial stimulant, inducing them to use exertions to promote their improvement, and has it not raised them to a superior place, above the disfranchised classes, such as the Chinese, Indians and women?
It is evident to every reasonable mind that these unjustly disfranchised citizens should be reïnstated in the right of suffrage.
This raised a delicate question, for how could women take part in celebrating the triumphs of their country whose laws disfranchised them?
In an equal degree we feel it inconsistent, as a disfranchised class, to unite with you in the celebration of that liberty which is the heritage of but one-half the people.
However it served a good purpose for all disfranchised classes, as the amendment called out a notable debate,[524] lasting three days, and received the votes of nine influential senators in its favor.
Appleby did send two representatives to Parliament, but has been disfranchised by the Reform Bill.
He was chosen to represent the nowdisfranchised borough of Tregony, in Cornwall, and afterwards was made member for the city of Durham.
Bill[95] for the regulation of elections, which disfranchised at a single stroke all the Roman Catholic voters in Ireland who up to that period had always enjoyed the franchise.
This practically disfranchised all the white men of the South over twenty-five years old.
Cannon and Lorenzo Snow, who were disfranchised for the same cause, were made respectively counsellor and president of the Twelve.
By this Act (the Reform Bill), therefore, women were technically disfranchised for the first time in the history of the English Constitution.
I am disfranchisedbecause I gave a cup of water to the lips of one of my dying boys on the battlefield.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disfranchised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
