Crossword clues for disfranchisement
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disfranchisement \Dis*fran"chise*ment\, n. The act of disfranchising, or the state of being disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.
Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then
to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony.
--Palfrey.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of disfranchise. 2 The deprivation of the privileges and immunity of citizenship.
WordNet
n. the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote
Wikipedia
Disfranchisement (also called disenfranchisement) is the revocation of the right of suffrage (the right to vote) of a person or group of people, or through practices, prevention of a person exercising the right to vote. Disfranchisement is also termed to the revocation of power or control of a particular individual, community or being to the natural amenity they are abound in; that is to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, of some privilege or inherent immunity. Disfranchisement may be accomplished explicitly by law or implicitly through requirements applied in a discriminatory fashion, intimidation, or by placing unreasonable requirements on voters for registration or voting.
Usage examples of "disfranchisement".
Besides, the disabilities imposed upon all are necessarily without that bitter and stinging element of invidiousness which attaches to disfranchisement in a republic.
The interest of the nation demands not the death or the expulsion of the secessionists, and, least of all, of those classes proscribed by the President's proclamation of the 29th of May, 1865, nor even their disfranchisement, perpetual or temporary.
The South must be kept down and disfranchisement of the whites was one way to keep the South down.