What is "disenfranchising"

Usage examples of "disenfranchising".

The Founding Fathers argued back and forth about which was the best method of disenfranchising the masses and settled on the unwieldy mess described in Article II, Section I.

Lynchings were common, and Southern states were allowed to determine who could and couldn't vote within their borders disenfranchising citizens of African descent.

When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of scepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchising them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future.

Mass mobility removes them from the district, sometimes disenfranchising them altogether.

When, through indifference, inatten­tion, incompetence, or fear of scepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchising them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future.

These ranged from making mixed marriages from a crime, to the physical segregation of the whites from men of colour, whether Asiatic or African, and disenfranchising all coloured persons who already had the vote while ensuring that those who did not have it, remained without it.