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Definition of Disfranchise

Disfranchise
Disfranchise Dis*fran"chise, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disfranchised; p. pr. & vb. n. Disfranchising.] [Cf. Diffranchise.] To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc. Sir William Fitzwilliam was disfranchised. --Fabyan (1509). He was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs. --Thirlwall.

Meaning of Disfranchise from wikipedia

- Disfranchi****t, also disenfranchi****t (which has become more common since 1982) or voter disqualification, is the restriction of suffrage (the right...
- Disfranchi****t after the Reconstruction era in the United States, especially in the Southern United States, was based on a series of laws, new constitutions...
- The Disfranchising Act was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Ireland debated in 1727 and enacted in 1728, one of a series of Penal Laws, and prohibited...
- Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited is a 1999 biography of American General Samuel Chapman Armstrong and his ****ociated normal school for freedmen...
- The Sligo and Cashel Disfranchi****t Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 38) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which removed the separate franchise...
- being made invisible in the political system: "[W]ithin a decade of disfranchi****t, the white supremacy campaign had erased the image of the black middle...
- mid-1960s helped overturn the state's Jim Crow laws that effectively disfranchised African Americans. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 made Virginia one of...
- voters, the Alabama legislature took several counter-steps designed to disfranchise black voters. The legislature p****ed, and the voters ratified [as these...
- and laws. Blacks and immigrants, however, resisted Democratic Party disfranchi****t efforts in the state. Maryland blacks were part of a biracial Republican...
- franchise was exclusively male. From 1728 until 1793, Catholics were disfranchised, as well as being ineligible to sit in the Commons. Most of the po****tion...