Enfranchised

I am a recently enfranchised Austrian citizen, thanks to my descent from victims of Nazi persecution.

However, the passage of the 15th Amendment on February 3, 1870, which enfranchised black men, created a schism in the movement, and between the races.

The country doubled in size, TWICE, then violently split in half before stitching itself together on the backs on millions newly emancipated and enfranchised former slaves.

Although there was press speculation at the time that Lloyd George would do so (or adopt US-style Prohibition to appeal to newly enfranchised women voters), there is no evidence that this was his intent.

A new constitution enfranchised the artisan class, opened minor civic offices to selection by lot and granted every citizen in good standing the right to a vote in a new parliament, the Consiglio Maggiore, or Great Council.

Baden's grand-ducal family faced extinction, so Leopold was enfranchised by international treaty and married to a princess, ascending the throne in 1830.

By the 1840s, only 40% of the state's free white males were enfranchised.

Customarily a newly enfranchised citizen would adopt the praenomen and nomen of his patron; that is, the person who had adopted or manumitted him, or otherwise procured his citizenship.

Furthermore, many wealthy Southern landowners thought they could control part of the newly enfranchised black electorate to their own advantage.

However Republicans were almost universally preferred by the South's newly enfranchised blacks.

In such cases, the filiation, if present, would indicate if someone were a freedman; but in these particular instances the nomina suggest citizens of provincial origin, who have been enfranchised by imperial decree.

It is also generally assumed that, as a member of the lowest rank of society - albeit a citizen Had Aurelian's family been enfranchised by virtue of the Constitutio Antoniniana (212 AD) his nomen would have been "Aurelius".

Protection would have been highly unpopular among the newly enfranchised urban working classes, as it would raise their cost of living.

Restitution-in the sense of a "natural law"-assuages resentment, because it is the means by which the powerful and enfranchised give the people who feel downtrodden and powerless what they believe is rightly theirs.

The edict gave all the enfranchised men the two first names of Caracalla "Marcus Aurelius".

The final authority in each Conservative community is the local rabbi, the mara d'atra (Lord of the Locality, in traditional terms), enfranchised to adopt either minority or majority opinions from the CJLS or maintain local practice.

They voted to reorganize the CJL into a Committee of Jewish Law and Standards, enfranchised to issue takkanot by a majority.

They wanted women and African Americans to be enfranchised at the same time.