Unenfranchised

Word UNENFRANCHISED
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Since enfranchise means - give the right to vote to-, Unenfranchise means take the freedom or right (to vote f.e.) from/ Restrict Urban Dictionary

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Among the unenfranchised are the owners of millions of dollars worth of property, college presidents and college graduates, thousands of teachers in universities, colleges and public schools, physicians, lawyers, dentists, journalists, heads of businesses, representatives of every trade and occupation and thousands of the nation's homekeepers. ❋ Various (N/A)

Until the ground-breaking general election television debates, many unenfranchised schoolkids showed virtually no interest in politics. ❋ Robert McCrum (2010)

Yet even after this legislation, less than 60% of the men in the country had the vote, with the unenfranchised invariably being concentrated amongst the poor, including the unemployed. ❋ Harry Barnes (2009)

Unidentified Woman: (Reading) Letter to the New York Herald, April 2nd, 1871, I claim the right to speak for the unenfranchised woman of the country and announce myself as a candidate for the presidency. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Even considering how weak the Republicans are and the new ground being broken in other ways, it was still assumed we'd see some really interesting new angles on this phenomenon and a much greater concentration on expanding the electorate to the previously unenfranchised than making any overt attempt to sway swing voters with centrist policies. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Alternatively, Israel can continue to occupy “Samaria,” “Judea,” and Gaza, whose Arab population—added to that of present-day Israel—will become the demographic majority within five to eight years: in which case Israel will be either a Jewish state with an ever-larger majority of unenfranchised non-Jews or it will be a democracy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And Joan's suppporters are unquestionably the good guys, the unenfranchised, the powerless. ❋ Ann Althouse (2005)

Alternatively, Israel can continue to occupy "Samaria," "Judea," and Gaza, whose Arab population — added to that of present-day Israel — will become the demographic majority within five to eight years: in which case Israel will be either a Jewish state (with an ever-larger majority of unenfranchised non-Jews) or it will be a democracy. ❋ Judt, Tony (2003)

Further, we note that oligarchies as well as aristocracies may last, not from any inherent stability in such forms of government, but because the rulers are on good terms both with the unenfranchised and with the governing classes, not maltreating any who are excluded from the government, but introducing into it the leading spirits among them. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

A certain man betrothed his daughter to a person whose father, having been made a magistrate, fined the father of the girl, and the latter, stung by the insult, conspired with the unenfranchised classes to overthrow the state. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

He is the author of the 1992 "Sharon Plan," under which Israel would annex 50 percent of the occupied territories and create eleven isolated "cantons" for the unenfranchised Palestinian residents. ❋ Weinberg, Louise (2002)

Historically speaking, the nearest approach to genuine democracy was not in ancient Athens, where a comparatively small number of free citizens, all with a right to speak in the assembly, were served by more than six times as many unenfranchised slaves. ❋ Unknown (1986)

One benighted male had come in from the outside darkness and had jeered from the further end of the hall, but he had been called to order by the chair, petrified by indignant glances from the unenfranchised around him, and finally escorted to the door by Charles Westmacott. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1982)

The delegates from Virginia — I'm sorry to say I was not one of them — of course sat in the lower house of the unenfranchised. ❋ Unknown (1964)

Women Voters came into being, but it may be interesting to note here that the League was the brainchild of Mrs. Catt, and the last convention of the National American Suffrage Association in 1919 had had representatives from both the already enfranchised states and the states which were unenfranchised. ❋ Unknown (1964)

North, 132, 283-4, 290, 291-295; on the interests of the unenfranchised in the American conflict, ❋ Ephraim Douglass Adams (N/A)

Meanwhile, Bright continued his preachment to the English people though modifying his tone of fierce accusation against "privilege," and confining himself to declaring the interest of the unenfranchised in the ❋ Ephraim Douglass Adams (N/A)

For over a year he had been advocating the cause of the North in public speeches and everywhere pointing out to unenfranchised England that the victory of the North was essential to democracy in all Europe. ❋ Ephraim Douglass Adams (N/A)

_ Bright had long preached to the unenfranchised of England the prosperity and might of America and these had long been denied by the aristocratic faction to be a result of democratic institutions. ❋ Ephraim Douglass Adams (N/A)

But governing classes were not the British public, and to the great unenfranchised mass, finding voice through the writings of a few leaders, the prosperity of America made a powerful appeal. ❋ Ephraim Douglass Adams (N/A)

In 1917, Carrie Chapman [Catt], who was a leader of the [women's suffrage] movement, made a speech arguing for [the 19th amendment]. It granted women, who were the unenfranchised class of the nation at that time, the right to vote. ❋ X&yescapist (2015)

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