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Definition of Disfranchisement

Disfranchisement
Disfranchisement Dis*fran"chise*ment, n. The act of disfranchising, or the state 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.

Meaning of Disfranchisement from wikipedia

- Disfranchi****t, also disenfranchi****t (which has become more common since 1982) or voter disqualification, is the restriction of suffrage (the right...
- Southern states had dropped enforcement of disfranchi****t of ex-Confederates except Arkansas, where disfranchi****t of ex-Confederates was dropped in the...
- vote on grounds of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". Disfranchi****t after the Reconstruction era began soon after. Former Confederate states...
- 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...
- impetus for even more thorough disfranchi****t. The Populist Party was dissolved in 1909, by which point disfranchi****t of African Americans was virtually...
- 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...
- Disfranchi****t after Reconstruction era began soon after. Former Confederate states p****ed Jim Crow laws and amendments to effectively disfranchise...
- Commission was appointed to investigate, which eventually led to the disfranchi****t of the constituency "Electoral Decisions". Northern Star and Leeds...
- accepted and which eventually went into law. Grampound was disfranchised by the Disfranchi****t of Grampound (No. 2) Act 1821 (1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 47), with...
- being made invisible in the political system: "[W]ithin a decade of disfranchi****t, the white supremacy campaign had erased the image of the black middle...