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Enfranchise meaning
To grant the franchise to an entity, specifically: | To grant the privilege of voting to a person or group of people. | To grant the franchise to an entity, specifically:
Synonyms of Enfranchise
Example sentences (7)
If it passes, Amendment 4 will enfranchise about 1.5 million people.
An emperor might emancipate or enfranchise large groups of people at once, all of whom would automatically receive the emperor's praenomen and nomen.
He would have preferred that the conflict arise over the legislative efforts to enfranchise African-Americans in the District of Columbia, a proposal that had been defeated overwhelmingly in an all-white referendum.
In 1867, the AERA campaigned in Kansas for referenda that would enfranchise both African Americans and women.
Nor did impeding markets for final goods to the planning system enfranchise consumers in meaningful ways.
Since Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory (see above) and not a U.S. state, the United States Constitution does not fully enfranchise US citizens residing in Puerto Rico.
The social tensions led President Tubman to enfranchise the indigenous Liberians either in 1951 or 1963 (accounts differ).