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Disfranchi****t, also disenfranchi****t (which has
become more
common since 1982) or
voter disqualification, is the
restriction of
suffrage (the right...
- The
Disfranchising Act was an Act of
Parliament of the
Parliament of
Ireland debated in 1727 and
enacted in 1728, one of a
series of
Penal Laws, and prohibited...
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Disfranchi****t after the
Reconstruction era in the
United States,
especially in the
Southern United States, was
based on a
series of laws, new constitutions...
- The
Sligo and
Cashel Disfranchi****t Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 38) is an Act of the
Parliament of the
United Kingdom which removed the
separate franchise...
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Educating the
Disfranchised and
Disinherited is a 1999
biography of
American General Samuel Chapman Armstrong and his ****ociated
normal school for freedmen...
- voters, the
Alabama legislature took
several counter-steps
designed to
disfranchise black voters. The
legislature p****ed, and the
voters ratified [as these...
- and laws.
Blacks and immigrants, however,
resisted Democratic Party disfranchi****t efforts in the state.
Maryland blacks were part of a
biracial Republican...
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pledge that they had
never supported the
Confederate government and
disfranchised all
those who had.
Lincoln vetoed the Wade–Davis Bill, but it established...
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franchise was
exclusively male. From 1728
until 1793,
Catholics were
disfranchised, as well as
being ineligible to sit in the Commons. Most of the po****tion...
- mid-1960s
helped overturn the state's Jim Crow laws that
effectively disfranchised African Americans. The
Voting Rights Act of 1965 made
Virginia one of...
