We, therefore, respectfully urge you, as guardian of the rights of all American citizens, to veto any measure coming before you which disfranchises the women of Utah.
Charles Sumner: "A State Constitution must originate with and be assented to by a majority of the people, including as well those whom it disfranchises as those whom it invests with the suffrage.
I approve of the proposition which disfranchises the enemies of the country.
I do not raise any question of theory, but I submit that a constitution which on its face disfranchises more than one fourth of the citizens cannot be republican in form.
Let it be declared that a State which disfranchises any portion of its citizens by a discrimination in its nature insurmountable, as in the case of color, cannot be considered a republican government.
A constitution which disfranchises more than one quarter of its population republican in form!
So the North, in spirit, also disfranchisesits lower class.
It is no condonement of the Southern position to say that the North also disfranchises a large part of the Negro vote by bribery, which it does; it is only saying that the North is also wrong.
It disfranchises him whether he voted that ticket or not, I may observe.
First, it disfranchises any man who becomes a resident of the State of Ohio, or who was a citizen of Ohio, who fought in the rebellion against the country.
In the next place, it disfranchises every man who deserted his comrades at the front, and ran away to vote the peace party ticket at the rear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disfranchises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
