In some of the towns the Reform Bill had distinctly operated as a measure of disfranchisement rather than of enfranchisement.
The principle of this measure is not reform, but the disfranchisement of some places and the enfranchisement of others, and also the granting of votes to large bodies of persons on a new qualification.
In the state constitution, adopted in 1865, disfranchisement and test oaths abounded.
Among the sources of discontent disfranchisement was the most pressing, since it was believed to be the chief cause of the shocking conditions in the South.
Sidenote: Disfranchisement of Civil Servants Suggested] "Another fact which Members ought not to overlook was the political pressure which was far too frequently exercised by Civil Servants upon those who also represented them.
Disfranchisement in every Southern State is as fixed and determinate, as the indifference of the Negroes of those sections, or the practises of all political parties can make it.
This was virtually a complete disfranchisement of the Southern people, and although only temporary, it was felt to be contrary to the spirit of our institutions and too indiscriminate a punishment.
Others cared only for the disfranchisement of the more prominent offenders, and for the establishment of negro suffrage.
The Bill for the disfranchisement of the forty shilling freeholders passed at the same time as the Catholic Emancipation Bill, and received the royal assent with it.
But now, it is deemed a mark of fanaticism to complain of the disfranchisement of a whole race, while they remain subject to the burden of taxation.
They judge, that their disfranchisement and the other disadvantages attending their residence are more than balanced by their favorable position for participating in Governmental patronage and other benefits.
The actual proposal was elaborately calculated so as to produce the least possible disturbance to the small boroughs in Great Britain, while securing the maximum of disfranchisement in Ireland.
Nevertheless, after a third of a century of successful endeavor, educationally and materially, efforts are being made in Southern States for his disfranchisement and the curtailment of his education.
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George Clinton countenanced, if he did not absolutely advise, the deliberate disfranchisement of hundreds of voters in 1792 that he might continue governor.
What we ask is that you shall cease to imagine that women are outside this law, and that you shall come into the knowledge that disfranchisement means the same degradation to your daughters as to your sons.
From 1876 to the present we have from year to year poured into Congress hundreds of thousands of petitions asking you to take the initiative step for another amendment which shall specifically prohibit the disfranchisement of women.
The law of supply and demand regulates free and enfranchised labor, but disfranchisement estops its operation.
Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape or control one's own circumstances.
As disfranchisement always has degraded men, socially, morally and industrially, so today it is disfranchisement that degrades women in the same spheres.
The disfranchisement of women would, therefore, reduce the total Mormon vote at least one half.
In 1898 the laws and constitutional provisions for practical negro disfranchisement begin in South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Bribery may be punished by fine, imprisonment and disfranchisementfor ten years.
The 7 fresh representatives to Scotland, and the 1 to Wales were balanced exactly by the disfranchisement of 8 English constituencies.
A little later he proved to the House the corruption existing at Gram-pound, and secured the disfranchisement of that borough and the transfer of its voting rights to the great county of York.
I warned him that the passage of the measure of disfranchisement had been no more than retarded.
The Cullom-Struble bill had been favorably considered by the Senate Committee on Territories, and the disfranchisement of all the Mormons of Utah seemed imminent.
I remembered the lesson of my interview with him at the time of the campaign against the disfranchisement bill, and I answered: "No.
I was sure that he would be strong in his demand for the passage of the disfranchisement act.
Again, in 1890, when the Mormons were threatened with a general disfranchisement by means of a test oath, he returned to Washington and saved them, with the aid of James G.
The bill for disfranchisement had been reported out by the committees and was on the calendar for passage.
A Royal Commission and the disfranchisement of the borough followed.
He points out the inconsistency of the disfranchisement of indirect tax-payers with the Declaration of Rights, and the opportunity afforded partisan majorities to influence suffrage by legislation on the mode of collecting taxes.
This revolutionary disfranchisement of near half the nation brought Paine to the Convention (July 7th) for the first time since the fall of the Brissotins, two years before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disfranchisement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
