enfranchisement

How To Use enfranchisement In A Sentence

• Even early American democracy would get low marks by contemporary standards since there was no enfranchisement for the majority of the population.
• Mr West said he had advised clients with residential and commercial property on letting and leasehold enfranchisement matters.
• Disenfranchisement in the first sense relates to the virtual exclusion of certain substantive issues from the ordinary political agenda.
• This was an application by the Lessor for determination of the price for enfranchisement of the subject property under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967.
• But as generations proceeded, and the relationships within the family diverged beyond the degree of second cousin, a natural breaking up seems to have taken place, though in the direction of subinfeudation under the feudal enforcement of the rule of primogeniture, instead of the practice, more in accordance with tribal instincts, of equal division and enfranchisement. On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay
• There is first the enfranchisement of your steaming limbs from gaiter and shooting boot, buckskin and flannel; then the steeping of your sodden head in the pellucid depth, with bubaline snortings and expirations of satisfaction; then, as the first cold stream from the "tinpot" courses down your spine, what electric thrills start from a dozen ganglia and flush your whole nervous system with new life! Behind the Bungalow
• As I see it, real enfranchisement is an opportunity to participate in the selection of the nation’s political leaders in a way that has at least some chance of affecting the result, not merely having your votes “counted.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Could National Juries Alleviate the Problem of Political Ignorance? 
• This is the eighth measure proposing female enfranchisement that the South Australian Parliament has considered.
• The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States has docketed Igartua, et al.v. United States of America (P-776-06) and Rossello, et al.v. United States of America (P-1105-06) as violations of human rights for the disenfranchisement of "four million American citizens". Puerto Rico voting ban lands USA in international court: 6th in a 21st Century American Colonies series
• Also, the cases are disanalogous: you cannot legitimately compare the situation of a disenfranchised group to that group that aggressively manufactured said disenfranchisement over the past 500 years. Think Progress » Fifty-five years after Brown v. Board, Mississippi county schools ordered to stop school segregation.