The Bill as introduced in December last, had to undergo some alterations in order that the proposed plan of reform might embrace the livery franchisepeculiar to the city of London.
Lord Macaulay speaks of Franchise de Maintenon in terms so pointed, that they well deserve to be quoted at the outset: "It would be hard to name any woman who, with so little romance in her temper, has had so much in her life.
Every time you bribe these rascals for a franchise you entrench them," he cried.
The part I had played in various reprehensible transactions such as the Riverside Franchise and the dummy telephone company affair was dwelt upon, and I was dismissed with the laconic comment that I was a graduate of Harvard.
But why blame me for getting a franchise for a company in the only manner in which, under present conditions, a franchise can be got?
We can get the franchise for next to nothing, if we work it right.
In short, the episode of the Riverside Franchise is a triumphant proof of the contention that business men are the best fitted to conduct the politics of their country.
This led me naturally to a discussion of the Riverside Franchise and the Traction Consolidation.
Under that damned new charter the franchise has got to be bid for--hasn't it?
The National Constitution does not confer the right of suffrage upon any one, but the franchise must be regulated by the States.
If the women of the nation were half so high-minded or even half so earnest, their title to the franchise might soon be granted.
At the beginning of 1860 the laws relating to women, as briefly stated by the great jurist, David Dudley Field, were as follows: The electivefranchise is confined entirely to men.
The constitution of Rhode Island of 1843, conferred the elective franchiseon persons of the male sex qualified by residence and property without distinction of color.
In Pennsylvania colored people exercised the elective franchise and enjoyed full citizenship with the whites up to 1838, when the elective franchise, by the constitution of that year, was confined to whites.
It is interesting to note that up to 1723, free colored people appear to have exercised the elective franchise equally with the whites in Virginia.
It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man.
To restrict thefranchise in any respect is to prepare the way for some future usurpation of the rights of the sovereign people.
It was but a step from the admission of Catholics to the franchise to their admission to the House of Commons, but that step was never taken by the Irish Parliament.
Their main feature has already been alluded to; thenceforth the direct way to the civic franchise was to be through membership of one of the civic guilds.
The interview was of a satisfactory character; and the deputation returned bearing a gracious letter from the king declaring that the City’s franchise and liberties should in no way be prejudiced by the commission.
M688) For some time past the City had experienced difficulty in exercising its franchise in the borough of Southwark.
In every hundred and franchise each man’s armour was to be viewed twice a year; and defaults reported to the king "who would find a remedy.
The Court said: "Within the field of permissible action, under the limitations imposed by the Federal Constitution, the convention swept the circle of expedients to obstruct the exercise of the franchise by the Negro race.
Blaine truly said that: "Without the right of citizenship his freedom could be maintained only in name, and without the elective franchise his citizenship would have no legitimate and no authoritative protection.
Sidenote: Restriction of County Franchise] The restriction of the county franchise on the other hand was the direct work of the Parliament itself.
Economic changes were fast widening the franchisein the shires.
At the close of 1411 he declared his will to stand in as great freedom, prerogative, and franchise as any of his predecessors had done, and annulled on that ground the appointment of the Continual Council.
Redress for such evils would now naturally have been sought from Parliament; but the weakness of the Crown gave the great nobles power to rob the freeholders of their franchise and return the knights of the shire.
He had mentioned the two radical doctrines of yearly election, and the Franchise enjoyed by all paying taxes; but it would be superfluous to reason in favour of them here, where all are agreed on the subject.
The basis of the elective Franchise being property, the legal condition of eligibility to a seat in Parliament is the same.
Suppose these Champions, in this their first declaration of hostility, had said, 'to recover the elective Franchise which we have suffered to lie dormant.
The so-called oath of allegiance was not that required by Parliament; the alteration in the franchise was a sham; while the two most important points, appeals to England and toleration in religion, were rejected.
Approached thus from the standpoint of legal history, no doubt can exist concerning the scope of the franchise secured by the Puritans for the Massachusetts colony.
To this period is probably to be assigned his proposal that the franchise should be given to all the Latin communities and that the status of the Latins should be conferred upon the Italian allies.
In 1878 his views upon the county franchise question prevented him from voting uniformly with his party, and he informed his constituents in the city that he would not stand again at the forthcoming general election.
But it was not only at the granting of the franchise that the boss and his machine sought for spoils.
Clay with directness pointed to Van Buren as the introducer "of the odious system of proscription for the exercise of the elective franchise in the government of the United States.
Before the days of the referendum the franchise was granted by the city council, usually as a monopoly, sometimes in perpetuity; and, until comparatively recent years, the corporation paid nothing to the city for the rights it acquired.
Under our laws the right of a public service corporation to occupy the public streets is based upon a franchise from the city.
And that no stranger shall work in the said trade, or keep house [for the same] in the city, if he be not an apprentice, or a man admitted to the franchise of the said city.
To those who watch carefully the working of this right of municipal franchise and see how easily and speedily the natives have adopted all the vices and tricks of the system, it does not by any means seem an unmixed good.
How far shall missions give the power of franchise to their lady members in the conduct of mission affairs?
The other law was an act restricting the elective franchise of men of color, to those possessing a fixed amount of property, no such restriction existing in the case of white men.
The franchiseis somewhat wider than the parliamentary.
By providing for the transfer of the existing franchise to be a corporation by a general law, they avoid the constitutional provision that 'the general assembly shall pass no special act conferring corporate powers.
That Chase's negro antecedents could be got along with by adopting a plank in the platform giving each State, or rather conceding to each State, the management of the franchise question.
I saw him to-day about the Hummel franchise that comes up in the Board next Tuesday.
That is why I have always advocated giving the franchise to women.
I shouldn't mind if Denton voted against both schemes, but to say he'll vote against Hummel for that reason, and yet vote for the other franchise shows that he's not square.
So this matter is neglected, upon which depend such vital factors as school attendance, factory employment, marriage, military duty, and the very franchise which is the basis of citizenship.
The Duma still exists, but its powers were closely restricted in 1907, and the franchise has been narrowed, to secure an overwhelming preponderance of the wealthy, so that it is altogether misleading to regard it as a popular assembly.
After some discussion Gladstone yielded, the Redistribution Bill was drawn up, and passed the Commons simultaneously with the Franchise Bill in the Lords.
The middle class was satisfied that the artisans could be admitted to the franchise without danger to the Constitution.
One disability only remains--the sex disability that denies the parliamentaryfranchise to women.
The membership of the House of Commons was increased from six hundred and fifty-eight to six hundred and seventy, the present total; and the franchise remains as it was fixed in 1885--occupation and ownership giving the right to vote.
For a general extension of the franchise, an extension from the occupation franchiseto the adult franchise, there does not appear to be any demand, except in connection with the burning question of the franchise for women.
The county franchise was a simple and straightforward matter compared with the methods of electing representatives from the boroughs.
The size of the borough bore no relation to its membership till the Reform Act of the nineteenth century, and as the selection of towns to be represented was arbitrary, so the franchise in the towns was equally unsettled.
In most of the "corporation boroughs" the franchise was restricted exclusively to freemen of the borough, and to the self-elected non-resident persons who composed the governing body before the Municipal Corporation Act of 1835.
The working class was still voteless, and the old democratic franchise of Preston and Westminster was gone from those boroughs.
The extension of the franchise was necessary whenever a body of people excluded from the electorate was conscious of being unrepresented and desired representation.
The other great class of towns--the franchise towns--differed from the free towns in having a much more limited measure of political and economic independence.
They had no active part in their own government, as was generally true of the franchise towns.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "franchise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
