Enfranchised

A general synod can alone consummate the union of the churches; nor can such a synod be held till the three Oriental patriarchs, and a great number of bishops, are enfranchised from the Mahometan yoke. ❋ Unknown (1206)

The slaves, who were liberated by a generous master, immediately entered into the middle class of libertines or freedmen; but they could never be enfranchised from the duties of obedience and gratitude; whatever were the fruits of their industry, their patron and his family inherited the third part; or even the whole of their fortune, if they died without children and without a testament. ❋ Unknown (1206)

(whom we will therefore call enfranchised burghers) are in like manner of two kinds. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

Nowadays, women who are doing much work out in the big world -- the so-called "enfranchised" women -- are many of them proving that they find housework no detriment to their careers and some even admit that they enjoy it. ❋ Various (1892)

The 1857 Act to Encourage the Gradual Civilization of Indian Tribes that "enfranchised" men over 21 who met specific criteria, not only stripped them of their Indian status, but that of their wives and children as well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments enfranchised blacks and effectively ended an economically effective two-tier society, in which blacks did what they were most skilled at - genetically superior musculature made them great laborers - and whites controlled intellectual product. ❋ Eliot Schrefer (2012)

Now he has been forced to concede that only those sentenced to less than a year should be enfranchised. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Bismarck taught the king to bury the Prussian towns in an ­avalanche of votes from newly enfranchised and resentful peasants, who he rallied with demagogic rhetoric, calling the perfectly reasonable Prussian liberals "loafers, freebooters, all sorts of scum." ❋ Geoffrey Wawro (2011)

QUIST-ARCTON: He says while Africans are becoming healthier with greater access to economic opportunities than five years ago, many are less politically enfranchised and less physically secure. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The central event in Belgium's story, he argues, was the extension of voting rights in 1893, which enfranchised hundreds of thousands of previously-powerless Flemish peasants. ❋ John W. Miller (2011)

For myself, there was one reward I promised myself from my detested toils — one consolation for my unparalleled sufferings; it was the prospect of that day when, enfranchised from my miserable slavery, I might claim Elizabeth, and forget the past in my union with her. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ah, the rage of the enfranchised. burritoboy says: ❋ Unknown (2010)

Kragen suggests that the endpoint I work towards may be “less desirable”, and I suppose that from his perspective as an enfranchised part of the OSS world — a developer who can make “good” choices when handed source code — that might be true. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thru out this time, wars were fought and almost without exception they were fought by the poor and dis-enfranchised, for more natural resources. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Under such a system, every citizen including the 50 million who are now unregistered would be automatically enfranchised. ❋ Curtis Gans (2011)

We are wrong for wanting the very wealthy to stop gouging the poor and dis-enfranchised. ❋ Unknown (2010)