Robert Smith, field coordinator of the Alabama Democratic Party Black Caucus explains, The current system of disfranchisement is incredibly unfair. From Wordnik.com. [Election 2000 Across the South] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [franchise] Reference
But the end is not yet, for we hear of other oppressive measures, such as disfranchisement and the like. From Wordnik.com. [Before the War, and After the Union; An Autobiography] Reference
Page 8 year 1904, in connection with the effort to introduce "disfranchisement" and "jim-crow" conditions into this State. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Maryland] Reference
Second, Section 5 singled out race-based denials of voting rights as the only kind of disfranchisement that justified aggressive federal protection. From Wordnik.com. [Election Law] Reference
I thought that you said the issue was disfranchisement?. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Edith Mitchell Dabbs, October 4, 1975. Interview G-0022. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Congressman Oates, of Alabama, advocates the disfranchisement of the. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 03, March, 1889] Reference
"We better not meddle with that matter of disfranchisement," said he. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
But we could not therefore propose the disfranchisement of those cities. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
There it takes the form of a bill to prohibit the disfranchisement of women. From Wordnik.com. [Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887] Reference
A conviction for larceny or any infamous crime operates as a disfranchisement. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Mr. Raymond spoke in favor of the amendment, except the disfranchisement clause. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
For the disfranchisement of minorities often gives rise to serious difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference
A vote without power proved to be more demoralizing than total disfranchisement. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 6] Reference
The decline and fall of disfranchisement are the two last acts of the great political drama. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
From Ohio alone has evidence been found of the actual enforcement of the disfranchisement provision. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment] Reference
Drunkenness was punished by disfranchisement; the blasphemer and the heretics were branded with a hot iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference
We may therefore pass by the alternative of disfranchisement as lying beyond the range of practical politics. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
He also became a member of the Franchise Action Council to oppose the disfranchisement of the Coloured people. From Wordnik.com. [Alex La Guma] Reference
The unions might not support, but would probably not try to stop, the disfranchisement of Africans in the Cape. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 16] Reference
Another example of the disintegrating effects of the disfranchisement of minorities is to be seen in the American. From Wordnik.com. [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference
The wave of disfranchisement then, as on the threshold of the twentieth century, dashed from one state to another. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
Imvo, the African paper of the day, wrote an editorial on this large-scale disfranchisement of the African people. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa: The Peasants Revolt] Reference
ENFRANCHISEMENT to be a gradual work, 354; how to bring about, 411; not disfranchisement, the question in reconstruction, 506. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
They will not consent to their own disfranchisement or to the loss of opportunities of education and of economic independence. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
The report of the committee imposes no adequate restraint upon this disfranchisement of races and creation of oligarchies in the. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
And again, to show that disfranchisement was precisely the slavery of which the fathers complained, allow me to cite to you old Ben. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting] Reference
Even then the existing partial disfranchisement of the electors would prevent a new constitution from going "too far" in a democratic direction. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
In these districts the minorities have been unrepresented for many years, the second ballots having in no way saved them from practical disfranchisement. From Wordnik.com. [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference
George Clinton countenanced, if he did not absolutely advise, the deliberate disfranchisement of hundreds of voters in 1792 that he might continue governor. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Besides, the disabilities imposed upon all are necessarily without that bitter and stinging element of invidiousness which attaches to disfranchisement in a republic. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
It would not do to propose the disfranchisement of a particular class of electors merely because they commonly use their franchise in favour of a particular political party. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
The compulsory support of the free school and the disfranchisement of all who can not read and write the English language, after a fixed probation, would meet my hearty approval. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
At a meeting of the committee called to reconsider the bill, Mr. Yates argued at length and with earnestness against disfranchisement on the ground of inability to read and write. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
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