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Enfranchising meaning
present participle and gerund of enfranchise
Example sentences (5)
But newly minted doctors tend to be more outspoken about the need to get involved in enfranchising patients and trying to fix a broken health care system.
Cuomo wouldn't be suppressing votes — he'd be re-enfranchising voters.
He advocated enfranchising a majority of Virginians, seeking to expand suffrage to include "yeoman farmers" who owned their own land while excluding tenant farmers, city day laborers, vagrants, most Amerindians, and women.
It was settled only when President Ulysses S. Grant ordered Joseph Brooks to disperse his militant supporters. citation Following the Brooks-Baxter War, a new state constitution was ratified, re-enfranchising former Confederates.
The Constitutio Antoniniana promulgated by Caracalla in AD 212 was perhaps the most far-reaching of many imperial decrees enfranchising large numbers of non-citizens living throughout the empire.