| 单词 | disfranchise |
| 例句 | That indifference allows our society to accept laws that would not be accepted if the people who were being disproportionately disfranchised were white. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z Douglass, as part of a delegation of Black Americans that visited the White House to argue for Black suffrage, told Johnson, “You enfranchise your enemies and disfranchise your friends.” When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Black Mississippians account for 36% of the state's voting age population but 59% of those who have been disfranchised for life due to a felony conviction. US Supreme Court won't scrutinize Mississippi curb on voting by felons 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Soumahoro says with a smile that he will have the "best suntan" in parliament, but is adamant that he intends to speak for the poor and disfranchised, regardless of their colour. From shining shoes in Africa to a seat in Italy's parliament 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z The trouble is that as white people become a minority in the US, efforts to disfranchise non-white voters necessarily become ever more crude and ever more desperate, but cannot be guaranteed to produce results. Counted out: Trump's desperate fight to stop the minority vote 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z It added that a significant number of voters were disfranchised because polling stations did not open, adding that even those people who were able to vote did so "in a context of fear and anxiety". Ivory Coast election: Alassane Ouattara wins amid boycott 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z “Let it remain possible, under our amendment, to still disfranchise the body of the colored race in the late rebel States and I tell you it will be done.” Opinion | The Equality That Wasn’t Enough 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z “It’s really going to create more division, more hardship, more hate, more civil unrest. It’s going to disfranchise thousands and thousands of people who voted.” Rep. Van Drew, ahead of expected party switch, compares impeachment to how 'third-world countries operate' 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Two-fifths of Virginians were enslaved, and Virginia’s conservative post-revolutionary constitution — to Jefferson’s dismay — disfranchised a third of the state’s white males. Review | How slavery warped Jefferson’s vision for the University of Virginia 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z By 1846, residents of Alexandria had grown irritated over being disfranchised, and political control of that area returned to Virginia. This man wants to make the District the 24th county in Maryland. Here’s how his plan would work. 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Voters on Tuesday adopted a number of measures to expand the vote to those currently disfranchised. America's descent into total oligarchy was stopped. For now | Heather Cox Richardson 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Florida is one of only four states, including Kentucky, Iowa and Virginia, that “permanently” disfranchises felons. A threat to democracy: Republicans' war on minority voters 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z But to Atlanta’s black rank-and-filechampioned by King during his lifetime, the Olympic bid was a vehicle to further criminalize, demonize, disfranchise and displace. Black mecca or most unequal US city: will the real Atlanta please stand up? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z As in Fight Club in 1996, there’s a band of disfranchised men who find brotherhood and identity in violence. Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk on his book becoming a bible for the incel movement 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z This both encouraged a more egalitarian discourse and made it possible for the voices of the previously disfranchised to be heard. The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z “The angry, disfranchised base that the group exploited is still there, so getting rid of the caliphate will not mean getting rid of the threat this group poses,” Civiroglu said. Their caliphate in ruins, IS militants melt into the desert 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z The winner-take-all proviso for awarding state electoral votes disfranchises minority party voters. 7 Things People Get Wrong About American History 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, this is just the latest in his ongoing effort to ban, deport, disfranchise and criminalize every key demographic that did not fit into his constituency’s vision of a white-dominated nation. By ending Daca, Donald Trump has declared war on a diverse America | Carol Anderson 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Immediately after the Supreme Court’s decision, Texas passed a draconian voter suppression law, SB 14, that disfranchised over one million Texans. Jeff Sessions now has my book 'White Rage'. Will he read it? | Carol Anderson 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Wisconsin Republicans were “giddy” about disfranchising African Americans, especially in Milwaukee. Donald Trump Is the Result of White Rage, Not Economic Anxiety 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Instead, the live broadcast captured Colbert’s unscripted devastation over the stunning outcome, and a realization that he was now more useful as a grief counselor for the disfranchised left than as a comedian. Colbert consoles and commiserates during live election special 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Although white Democrats’ disfranchisement of southern blacks is the most notorious example, it is also clear that northern Republicans sometimes manipulated voter registration rules to disfranchise Democratic-leaning immigrants and working people. Here's How Registering to Vote Became a Thing 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Since Pickering thinks the youngsters got it right, his solution is to disfranchise the geezers: The Old—Heave-Ho 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The abolition movement was an interracial radical social movement of disfranchised people, men and women, white and black, free and enslaved. What You Still Don't Know About Abolitionists 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z But it is difficult to fathom the logic of disfranchising citizens because they were poorly served by politically controlled schools. The Troll Booth 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z They enacted an entire set of laws to disfranchise and otherwise oppress African Americans; they enforced such laws by threat of the rope, the whip, and the mob. The South’s faces of terror must go: Don’t let the Confederate flag fight go the way of gun control 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z This was not the first instance of an Australian constituency voluntarily disfranchising itself by electing a prominent British statesman by way of protest against some real or fancied injustice. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z This angered the settlers and being dissatisfied because they were disfranchised by the rascals who engineered the plan, Amro began rapidly to lose outside sympathy. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z The next session he moves to disfranchise that rotten borough, which had been convicted of bribery, and transfer its members to Leeds. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z It’s reasonable to conclude, then, that the Harsanyi plan would have the intended effect of disfranchising a substantial minority of eligible citizens. The Troll Booth 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z It has disfranchised three millions of electors, two-thirds of whom are peaceable inhabitants of the country. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z The matter was referred to the Queen in Council, and he was ordered to be fined £100, to be disfranchised and turned out of the town. England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z Two of the boroughs I hold will be disfranchised, in return for which I am to have money down.' My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z In England, 56 burghs were wholly disfranchised, 31 others partially, whilst 41 new towns were enfranchised, part receiving two members, others one. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z He wants to have something to say about the laws he has to obey, and they are not willing to come here and disfranchise themselves. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Such was the origin of the village of English Harbour, which, on account of being principally crown property, is disfranchised. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Even the middle class was in great part disfranchised; taxation was needlessly severe; the press was restricted grievously; and Ireland was shamefully oppressed. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z In the same year the Post Office servants were disfranchised. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z Arriving at his majority in 1836, he resolved to consecrate his powers to the elevation of the laboring and disfranchised classes of the people. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z We have disfranchised the aristocrats of the air, and have given one country to mankind. Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs 2011-11-24T03:00:41.267Z If the word "nativity" had been retained the Southern States could not have disfranchised the negroes by means of the "Grandfather Clause," as some of them did. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z As soon as a strong government ceased to be needed for protection against Napoleon, there broke out much agitation for relief of the disfranchised as well as of the destitute. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z The chief objection to this requirement is that it constitutes something of a burden to the voter and often disfranchises him on account of his negligence or inability to register on the day prescribed. Government in the United States National, State and Local 2011-11-16T03:00:28.590Z The ancient rights of voters, in burghs not disfranchised, were partially preserved, but provision was made for their gradual extinction. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z The defeat of this candidate in 1818 led to a parliamentary inquiry which disclosed a system of wholesale corruption, and in 1821 the borough was disfranchised. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Reconstruction, measured by the results of five years, was a failure, being a confused medley of ignorant negro voters, disfranchised whites, disreputable carpet-baggers, and corrupt legislatures. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Military usurpation at Madrid, January 3d; death of Sumner, March 11th; citizens of District of Columbia disfranchised, June 17th; Alphonso XII. king of Spain, December 30th; Mrs. Besant begins to lecture; Victor Hugo's Ninety-Three published. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z Some 50 per cent of the voters in one county of Ohio were disfranchised by the court for selling their votes in the general election of 1910. Government in the United States National, State and Local 2011-11-16T03:00:28.590Z He was returned for Barnstaple in 1852, but the election was declared void on account of bribery, and the constituency was disfranchised for two years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z Their clients were the poor, the lowly, the disfranchised, the unprivileged, against whom the grandeurs of the world lifted a heavy hand. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z The platform on which Brown was chosen declared that the time had come "for removing all disqualifications from the disfranchised people of Missouri and conferring equal political rights and privileges on all classes." The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z I have prosecuted the Board of Inspectors for disfranchising me. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z The historical student finds mirrored in this work the rosy picture of the United States as seen at its dawn by the disfranchised people of Europe, and beside that a burdened England now hardly credible. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z He was chosen to represent the now disfranchised borough of Tregony, in Cornwall, and afterwards was made member for the city of Durham. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z The characteristic of all churches, of whatever name, is an urgent interest in social reform, a deep concern for the disfranchised and oppressed, and a warm feeling towards the elevation of mankind. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Mill favored educational qualifications for voters, like the "literacy tests" used to disfranchise most blacks and many whites in the South before the 1960s. Why libertarians apologize for autocracy 2011-08-30T11:01:00Z Two groups in particular are disfranchised by the first-past-the-post voting system: populists and libertarians. The best way to fight the two-party monopoly 2011-08-09T11:01:00Z This uprising is really that of Israel's disfranchised secular middle class. Israel's secular middle class strikes back 2011-08-02T13:12:02Z Appleby did send two representatives to Parliament, but has been disfranchised by the Reform Bill. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z That law would only disfranchise the Mormons, the disloyal element in the Territory, and would put Utah in the hands of the law-abiding citizens alone. The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It 2011-07-21T02:00:23.213Z I would prefer calling it an egg nogg; but there is one extra ingredient that disfranchises the egg and in a peculiar way leaves the nogg there in a somewhat embarrassing condition. Treading the Narrow Way 2011-07-21T02:00:18.563Z Until 1894 women owners, as such, were entitled to vote in Poor Law Guardian elections, but the Local Government Act of that year disfranchised them, while enlarging the voting rights of men owners. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z The negro race had been disfranchised and the ballot restored to its original dignity. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z The assembly now took matters in its own hands and changed the method of elections, so that many large landholders were practically disfranchised. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z The disfranchised and landless man comes to us, and receives political rights, and the title of a farm in fee simple. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z The Commissioners reported that corrupt and illegal practices extensively prevailed, and in consequence the borough was disfranchised. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z His attempt to enter public life was seconded by the "worthy and enlightened" electors of Sudbury, who sent him to Parliament, from whence he was speedily ejected on petition—the borough being soon afterwards disfranchised. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z To all intents and purposes they are disfranchised, and outlawed, and the only privilege extended to them, is a shallow and circumscribed participation in the political movements that usher slaveholders into office. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z One must come to America, the land of freedom, to find steel workers still economically disfranchised and compelled to work twelve hours a day. The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons 2011-05-07T02:00:25.193Z They have conceived a plan to disfranchise in a manner all members of the American Railway Union and deprive them of the right to vote. The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike 2011-05-02T02:00:15.510Z In the House of Commons, on May 29th, the Attorney-General announced that the scheduled voters were to be disfranchised, and the writ for the vacant seat suspended during the then Parliament. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z De Morny was “kicked out” with a silken slipper, and the rest of the programme was carried through—even to the disfranchising of the blouses. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z It only required a trick to disfranchise the two millions of Houses, and then the French Assembly would be sufficiently conservative to transform the Republic into an Empire! The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z The legislature passed an act restricting suffrage which disfranchised three-fourths of the native population of the middle and western parts of the state. When the Ku Klux Rode 2011-04-06T02:00:03.767Z A severe persecution was initiated against the Alberti and other families, who were disfranchised and exiled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z If in England, where culture had made such advances, the Catholics could be disfranchised, is it strange, that in Poland, a vehement party was opposed to the toleration of Protestants? The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z Every man should select his own ballot and vote to please himself, and any person that would interfere with his right and duty to do this, should be disfranchised forever. Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays 2011-03-12T03:00:23.783Z In Great Britain the agitation of the disfranchised middle classes, which seemed to threaten a violent revolution, ended in 1832 in the passing of the Reform Bill and their admission to political power. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z He is now disfranchised; Congress will still have power to enforce the 15th amendment by appropriate legislation and it will do so whenever it can screw its courage to the sticking point. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z Why wait for the mockery of an election, when it is provided, unalterably, that the people cannot vote when the majority are disfranchised? Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z They are bound to vote even when disfranchised. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z It may be natural for the white race to disfranchise, "Jim-Crow" and burn Negroes, but the Negro is naturally opposed to that procedure. Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.) 2011-02-23T03:00:31.787Z Lord Backwoods has been speaking to his constituents against the Bill for disfranchising Conscientious Obstructionists of the Mental Progress Acts. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z Does Georgia show any signs of the disfranchising spirit? The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z He represented the subsequently disfranchised borough of St Michael’s, Cornwall, in the House of Commons, until the death of his father in 1818 gave him a seat in the House of Lords. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Negroes are disfranchised by legal and illegal methods and by unfair administration of the law. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z In other words, there was one majority for disfranchising just one-half the meeting, counting the above man; and this, too, on the principle that the majority ought to rule. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z The attitude of the world toward the intellectually disfranchised sex remained unchanged almost until our own time. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Do the savages of Africa enact disfranchising clauses to keep apes and monkeys out of their political affairs? The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z Two distinct impulses mark the effort of the South to disfranchise the Negro. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z We all remember with what confidence and absolute certainty of conviction this program was announced when Mississippi disfranchised her Negro voters seventeen years ago. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z The vague and irresponsible interest of the disfranchised is a poor substitute for the definite obligation to apply one's own strength to the machine itself, which is the privilege of the enfranchised. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z In 1873 the article of the constitution which had disfranchised the whites was repealed, and the Democrats thus regained power. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" A great kingdom, with more than two millions of people,—intelligent, instructed, industrious and peaceable,—was virtually disfranchised.... The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z He has shown how white men are being disfranchised as well as Negroes, how the South is controlled by a “Bourbon oligarchy” in the Democratic party and a “federal-for-revenue” Republican party—as he calls them. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z The North wavered; having put its hand to the plow it looked back, and gradually allowed the black peasantry of the South to be almost completely disfranchised. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z In plain English, we may have to disfranchise the coloured voters of Cape Colony, shut up their schools and churches, and reduce them to slavery. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z A forger of deeds could be branded in the forehead with the letter F; while for defacing the records the offender could be disfranchised and branded in the face. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days The classes you would disfranchise will become the makers of a political slum. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z Though nearly all Negroes are disfranchised, as well as a large number of white voters, all these disfranchised voters are counted in the allotment of Congressmen to Southern states. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z All opponents of the ruling policy were disfranchised and disqualified for office by act of parliament in 1652. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" One of these additional Bills, or "wings," was intended to take political power from the poorest, most ignorant, and least independent of the peasantry, by disfranchising the forty-shilling freeholders. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z We say it's wrong that we should be disfranchised because we are women . . . it is illogical . . . we must have it.' A Bed of Roses In the other four disfranchising states, as well as all other Southern states, they are in the minority. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z And though the politicians may talk about complete Negro disfranchisement, the Negro has nowhere been completely disfranchised: a few Negroes vote in every part of the South. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z It first sent members to parliament in 1547, and continued to send two representatives till disfranchised by the Reform Act of 1832. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" These successive improvements in the state of women were made with little difficulty except such as sprang from ignorance, and the indifference of legislators to the special claims of disfranchised classes. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z But, tell me, supposing women get the vote, most of my class will be disfranchised on the present registration law. A Bed of Roses In fine, what is the Spanish government in Cuba but an armed monarchy, encamped in the midst of a disarmed and disfranchised people? To Cuba and Back There are, as I have shown, hundreds of thousands of disfranchised white Americans in the South. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z The provision disfranchising the white men of the South had been contemporaneously declared, and was a part of that remarkable series which had empanoplied the negro race with all the political belongings of freedom. K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it. Here was Benjamin Disraeli belonging to a race formerly disfranchised in England becoming at last Prime Minister of Her Most Christian Majesty Queen Victoria! Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day It was reduced from an archbishopric to a bishopric in 1839, and was disfranchised, on account of corrupt practice, in 1870, having previously returned one member to parliament. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" And the educational qualifications which especially the Southern States are rigidly enforcing tend to disfranchise the great mass of the negroes, who form the main body of the working class in those States. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State For disfranchisement of the Negro has also served to disfranchise a very large proportion of the white people as well. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z If the majority can disfranchise ten boroughs, why not twenty—why not the whole kingdom? Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence It was fought on a register purged of the rebel voters, many of whom, besides being disfranchised, were in prison. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The borough was represented by two members in the parliament of 1295, but in the following year was disfranchised, on the petition of the burgesses, on account of the expense of sending members. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" In our time it has been very properly disfranchised. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself But a purchased voter is a disfranchised voter. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z The disfranchised bourgeois, or middle class, had lately grown in wealth and now thought more about their political rights. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 The discussion which followed, based partly on the reports that the ministry contemplated disfranchising the natives, led, however, to no immediate results. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" Colonel Edward Hill, who had been disfranchised, was now unanimously elected speaker. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Should she marry again, the man who ventured to wed her was disfranchised. Greek Women In the South the Negro has been disfranchised by law or by intimidation: in the North by cash. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z The disfranchised conscience in a smooth, unresisting world, becomes an enchaining conversation, an all-narrating fable. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. By the Representation of the People Act of 1867 the representation was reduced to one member, and by the Redistribution Act of 1885 it was disfranchised. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Minor punishments were inflicted on others; some were compelled to sue for pardon on their knees, with a rope about the neck; others fined, disfranchised, or banished. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia It was thereafter disfranchised as a punishment for its misdeeds; and his costly experiences doubtless suggested the clever electioneering sketches in the story of Ralph the Heir. Studies in Contemporary Biography Talk with these politicians on the one hand, and the impractical reformers on the other, and they will tell you in all seriousness of the sins of the South in disfranchising the Negro. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z In its bearing upon the present disfranchising enactments of the South, the answer to these questions is important. The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 A disfranchised class in an industrial republic like ours is as much at the mercy of an enfranchised class as is a flock of shepherdless sheep at the mercy of a pack of wolves. The Ballotless Victim of One-Party Governments The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 16 The Representation Act of 1868 reduced the number of parliamentary representatives to one, and the borough was disfranchised by the Redistribution Act of 1885. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Sufficient has now been stated to show that the convention movement was now deeply rooted in the thought of the disfranchised American. The Early Negro Convention Movement The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 9 If you were to tell these men that the Negroes of Springfield are disfranchised as absolutely as they are anywhere in the South, they would stare at you in amazement. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z The Constitution of Mississippi has served as the pattern for the disfranchising enactments of South Carolina and Louisiana. The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 Governor Andrew was right, a disfranchised man, a disfranchised class must become ultimately, “The hopeless pariah of a merciless civilization.” The Ballotless Victim of One-Party Governments The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 16 Napoleon the Third's plan of depriving unmarried men of their votes would have disfranchised the two greatest Conservative classes in France, the priest and the soldier. The History of Freedom The proposal therefore to disfranchise any class of men is as criminal as the proposal to take away property. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 Not only do the enacted laws disfranchise all possible Negroes, but many other Negroes who have enough property or education to qualify, are further disfranchised by the dishonest administration of those laws. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z Although they had assembled for no other purpose than to disfranchise the Negro, yet out of fear of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, they failed to do all they purposed. The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 The wolves will devour the sheep and the enfranchised class will prey on the disfranchised class. The Ballotless Victim of One-Party Governments The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 16 I admit that, prior to the rebellion, by common consent, the right to enslave, as well as to disfranchise both native and foreign born persons, was conceded to the States. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years To observe the extent to which the populace can proceed, disfranchised of law and religion, will always leave a memorable recollection. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 So the North, in spirit, also disfranchises its lower class. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z The fifth section of it furnishes a true index to the spirit which is behind all of these disfranchising enactments. The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 Starting with Mississippi in 1890, state after state disfranchised the Negro. Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt The disfranchised must always do the work, accept the wages, occupy the position the enfranchised assign to them. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The burgher right was made entirely dependent upon property, which was a facile method of disfranchising the multitude of poor immigrants and of keeping them down. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times As it is, it is probable the matter will be taken up and the borough disfranchised. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II The constitutionality of these disfranchising enactments has not been made a direct issue in the Supreme Court of the United States. The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 It is true that, in the South, the Negro is disfranchised. Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt Nor is it a "new thing under the sun" for the disfranchised, the inferior classes weighed down with wrongs, to declare they "do not want to vote." The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The laws were so arranged as effectually to disfranchise those who had no property. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times The only difficulty he apprehended was from the postponement of the disfranchising clause, which the Tories insisted on, and to which he and Harrowby had thought it right to agree. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II Thus one-seventh of the citizens called a convention and enacted a constitution which disfranchised more than one hundred thousand electors. The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 The Negro has been disfranchised, but he is more capable of the ballot today than ever before. Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt I think the disfranchised ex-rebels and ex-State prisoners all will agree that it is not only one of them, but the one without which all the others are nothing. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Among the masses of workers, most of whom were, however, disfranchised, any attempt to vest the rich with new privileges, was received with the bitterest resentment. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times If anybody had gone down at the eleventh hour and polled one good vote, he would have beaten both candidates and disfranchised the borough. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II What effect have these disfranchising enactments had upon the status of the Negro? The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 The Negro in this section has been disfranchised and therefore he cannot play at that game. Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt Nor has "the judgment of their peers" been pronounced against women exercising their right to vote; no disfranchised person is allowed to be judge or juror—and none but disfranchised persons can be women's peers. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Why innocent persons who were loyal to the Government and the Union should be disfranchised and proscribed because their neighbors and fellow citizens had engaged in a conspiracy, he could not explain or defend. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 The first clause in the Bill enacts that fifty-six boroughs be disfranchised. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II In the states which have adopted these disfranchising constitutions, more than three hundred thousand citizens have been thereby disqualified as jurors. The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 Under the act of 1868 the county returned six members in three divisions, and four of the boroughs were disfranchised, making a total of seventeen members. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" It will not always be the men combining to disfranchise all women; native born men combining to abridge the rights of all naturalized citizens, as in Rhode Island. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The other eight evidently did not consider disfranchised women worthy of an answer. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Women have been disfranchised in our country long enough and we now ask for that measure which will constitutionally grant the right to vote to the women of our land. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V These disfranchising enactments in that they lower the legal and economic status of the black man, also tend to lower his educational and social status. The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 The women of the United States are now the only disfranchised class, and sex is the one remaining disqualification. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The vote was small, as most Mexicans were disfranchised by an educational requirement. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI The first two speakers proceeded without interruption but when Mrs. Hardy said that by marrying in the United States she found herself disfranchised, the committee woke up. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V The election returns from the three states of Louisiana, South Carolina and Mississippi show how startling is the power which they exercise in Congress by reason of these disfranchising instruments. The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 Here we are trying to have a complete republic, and yet there are twelve millions of disfranchised adults. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The disfranchised are in the position of the pauper. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years At the bottom were figures in black, representing the States where women were wholly disfranchised, extending their manacled arms to Liberty. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI As most of them were disfranchised they brought little voting strength but the other parties were forced to admit them and for the first time they gained a foothold in politics. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V This can no more be among us with women disfranchised than in our nation all men could be free and equal while there were more than 3,000,000 slaves. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III I can think of nothing so helpless and humiliating as the position of a disfranchised person. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Nearly all the original thirteen States had property qualifications which disfranchised poor white men as well as women and negroes. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The right of suffrage does not attach of right to the owners of property, for, if so, all other persons should be disfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI The absurdity of the intelligent, tax paying but disfranchised woman being governed by the vote of the illiterate, shiftless loafer or pauper would be laughable were it not so serious. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V But when any district was incorporated into a municipal borough, the women rate-payers were disfranchised, although those not included within its boundaries remained possessed of votes. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Every man knows the weakness of a disfranchised class of men. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Insurrectionary and revolutionary methods of righting wrongs, imaginary or real, are pardonable only in the enslaved and disfranchised. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years "I know only woman and her disfranchised," was her creed.... The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Does disfranchised influence, unsteadied by the responsibility of the ballot and the broadening experience of public service, make for the greatest good to the greatest number, which is the aim of true democracy? The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Answer: "No; prohibition should be settled by the people; it cannot be with one-half our citizens disfranchised, and that half its most earnest advocates." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The whole race of women is disfranchised, and they suffer in the same way. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV If men possessing the power of the ballot are driven to desperate means to gain their ends, what shall be done by disfranchised women? The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The old, the feeble, the slacker, the crank, the conscientious objector would all be left in full strength and the fighting men would be disfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Women, was introduced to the convention and showed how republics disfranchised half of their citizens. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Once admit the right of a representative body to disfranchise its own constituents, and who can establish the limits to which that right may not be carried? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III You would not be long in bringing in a favorable report if you were the ones who were disfranchised and denied a voice in your Government. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV It is simply in obedience to a law of political economy which makes it impossible for a government to do as much for the disfranchised as for the enfranchised. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Switzerland, like France, is a republic only in name, as women are wholly disfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Mrs. Lucy Hobart Day, president of the Maine association, demonstrated the inferior and unfortunate position of disfranchised women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V A clause had been inserted in the Franchise bill disfranchising any man who had been in receipt of parish medical aid for himself or family. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Mrs. Bradwell was the first to make a test case with regard to the civil rights of women, and to prove that the disfranchised citizen is unprotected. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV This law can no more reach the disfranchised than it did the enslaved. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Respect for majority rule in government cannot fairly be demanded from a disfranchised group. Introduction to the Science of Sociology It preserves also the determination of other U. S. Senators to deny them this citizen's right and to continue their disfranchised condition. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Harbine and 160 others, asking a constitutional amendment prohibiting the disfranchising of citizens on account of sex. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV If it had been a class of men who were disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The colored men of Pennsylvania, like their brethren in other Northern States, were not content in being disfranchised. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century In 1699 they were disfranchised by an Act of the Assembly of New York. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V The practice under the constitution has been to treat as disfranchised all persons not specified as entitled to vote. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III I have never seen women so honored since those of Washington were disfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV With great respect for your frank and candid talk with one of the disfranchised, I am, very sincerely yours. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years If society should disfranchise individuals convicted of infamous crimes, would this be an invasion of natural right? Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject In order to make the Canadian colonies secure against revolution the British Parliament, which had previously disfranchised the Catholics and the Jews, now extended a vote to them. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V This prayer, like that of the 7,000, met the fate of all attempts of disfranchised classes to influence legislation. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III It is inevitable, therefore, that, feeling the pressure of legislation under which they suffer, a new intelligence should stir the minds of women such as stirred the once disfranchised classes of men in Great Britain. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The resolutions scored the bill before Congress proposing to disfranchise all Utah women, both Gentile and Mormon, to punish the crime of polygamy. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years We ask the court to consider what it is to be disfranchised; not this plaintiff only, but an entire class of people, utterly deprived of all voice in the government under which they live! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The women cannot again be disfranchised except by an amendment to the State constitution, which would first have to pass a Legislature elected by the whole people. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V A vote for Leslie W. Russell is a vote to keep these women disfranchised and to prolong these mischiefs. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III It is not only that the disfranchised women are unfairly treated, but the public good inevitably suffers from the political nonexistence of half the citizens of the republic. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Negro slavery is but one of the protean forms of disfranchised humanity. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II In New York that year there was a definite enactment disfranchising them. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V But after many vain struggles for redress in the iron teeth of the law, and equally vain appeals to have unjust laws amended, the women learned the hopelessness of all efforts made by disfranchised classes. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Scarcely a Senator on this floor is liable by law to perform military or other administrative duty, yet this rule set up against the right of women to vote would disfranchise nearly this whole body. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Miss Anthony wished to know if it would not be a good thing then, to disfranchise the ministers and let them depend entirely on their moral influence. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years It is impossible that that can be a Republican government in which one half the citizens thereof are forever disfranchised. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Catholics and Jews were disfranchised in most States. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V He had nothing to fear from me, knowing that I was only a disfranchised slave. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III They cite the physical superiority of man, but offer no amendment to increase the voting power of a Sullivan or to disfranchise the halt, the lame, the blind or the sick. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV For the last thirty years I have written in all albums, 'Perfect equality of rights for women, civil and political;' or, 'I know only woman and her disfranchised.' The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years But, even if it could be held to recognize a right on the part of the State to disfranchise any one, it would only extend to "males," not to females. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II It cannot be sugarcoated into any other significance as long as we remain classed with idiots, criminals and some of the negro men who also are disfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V By informing the legislature that the bill to repeal the statutes which keep you from voting was unconstitutional he misled the legislature and kept you disfranchised. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III To secure this large disfranchised class as allies to one of the leading parties would be a wise measure for that party and bring a new element of morality and intelligence into the body politic. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Since no disfranchised class of men ever had equal chances in the world, it is fair to conclude that the first requisite to bring them to women is enfranchisement. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Scarcely a session of Congress but some politician introduces a bill to disfranchise the women of these Territories. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II To every intelligent, thinking woman, we put the question, On what sound principles of jurisprudence, constitutional law, or human rights, are one-half of the people of this State disfranchised? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Mrs. Harriette R. Shattuck spoke on the golden rule, asking men to put themselves in the place of disfranchised women, and then legislate for them as they would be legislated for. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III But this is only one wrong among many inevitable for a disfranchised class. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The men of Wyoming had occupied this proud position up to 1893, but those of Colorado had granted the ballot to a disfranchised class not through the legislature, but by a popular vote. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Her disfranchised condition is a badge of servitude. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Now, gentlemen, we would fain know by what authority you have disfranchised one-half the people of this State? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I It is evident to every reasonable mind that these unjustly disfranchised citizens should be re�nstated in the right of suffrage. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Of the two it would be better to disfranchise the soldiers and enfranchise the mothers. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Mark the direct prohibition, "No member of this State shall be disfranchised, unless by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers." The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years There are men who do not care enough about the franchise to make use of it; therefore, according to this argument, they should be immediately disfranchised. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II But it was done because it was only through petitions, a power seemingly so inefficient, that disfranchised classes could be heard in the national councils, hence their importance. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I In an equal degree we feel it inconsistent, as a disfranchised class, to unite with you in the celebration of that liberty which is the heritage of but one-half the people. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III I would rather have that ballot on election day than the prayers of all the disfranchised women in the universe! The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Well, they are born of disfranchised mothers, a subject class, and one can not expect different results. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years It seems, in this point of view, a righteous retribution upon American men, that the disfranchisement of woman has put such a weapon into the hands of those who would disfranchise the negro also. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II But alas! they forgot that women were a disfranchised class, and that legislators give no heed to the claims of such for protection. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I This raised a delicate question, for how could women take part in celebrating the triumphs of their country whose laws disfranchised them? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Before the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments the States had the power to disfranchise on account of race or color. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV We should demand the wiping out of all legislation which keeps us disfranchised. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years It is provided that citizens may be disfranchised for treason; but it is nowhere provided that a citizen shall be disfranchised for being a married woman. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II To tax a man's property without his consent, is in effect disfranchising him of every civil right. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I So that Illinois was the first State in the Union, since the time when the women of New Jersey were disfranchised, to give to foreign-born women the elective franchise. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III If it were submitted whether all owning property above a certain amount should be disfranchised, and only those who owned less than this, or nothing, were allowed to vote, it would be carried unanimously. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The old leaders were still disfranchised, and many of them could not believe that the North would permit the radicals to subject them to the control of illiterate negroes. The New Nation For, however destructive to their happiness this government might become, a disfranchised class could neither alter nor abolish it, nor institute a new one, except by the old brute force method of insurrection and rebellion. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Like all disfranchised classes, they begun by asking to have certain wrongs redressed, and not by asserting their own right to make laws for themselves. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I A spirited editorial in the New York Independent was based upon the following facts, given by request of some of the disfranchised women: Rev. W. G. Pierce was the pastor of the Elmwood Congregational Church. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Chief Justice Roger S. Greene of the Supreme Court estimated that at the last election before they were disfranchised four-fifths of all the women in the Territory went to the polls. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV South Carolina, in 1895, used residence, enrollment, and poll-tax, while the convention called to disfranchise the negro passed resolutions of sympathy for Cuban independence. The New Nation The Democrats seeing this, are now determined to again disfranchise the women. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II We have at our disposal the means of moral agitation and influence, that can arouse our country to a saving sense of the wickedness and folly of disfranchising half the people. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I A citizen disfranchised in a republic is a citizen attainted. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Mr. Brown: I was a member of that second Legislature which tried to disfranchise women.... The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV One of these contemplated a reduction of the Southern representation in the House, under that part of the Fourteenth Amendment that requires such reduction in proportion to the number of citizens who are disfranchised. The New Nation Could a State disfranchise and deprive of the right to a vote all citizens who have red hair; or all citizens under six feet in height? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II What! disfranchised woman—made by her law-maker an appendage to himself, her intellect shackled, her labor underrated, her physical power dwarfed and enfeebled by custom—is she expected to do this mighty thing? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I If disfranchisement meant annihilation, there might be safety in disfranchising the poor, the ignorant, the vicious. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The same Legislature defeated a proposal to disfranchise for a term of three years men convicted of infamous crimes, and it voted to admit to suffrage men who did not pay their poll-tax. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV It remained to be seen whether he could be disfranchised by law and yet have no redress. The New Nation And it may be said that the disfranchised "have no rights that the enfranchised are bound to respect." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Suppose woman, though equal, does differ essentially in her intellect from man, is that any ground for disfranchising her? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Men in this country are occasionally disfranchised for crime, and sometimes pray for the removal of their political disabilities. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Suppose the news were to be flashed across our country to-morrow that the farmers of the nation were to be disfranchised, what indignation there would be! The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV He proposed to disfranchise a few rotten boroughs; but to soften this measure he afterwards suggested that a million should be set aside to buy such boroughs as should voluntarily apply for disfranchisement. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. So when gentlemen talk with me, and say we have too many voters already, I reply, do not disfranchise these men, enlighten them, for God has sent them here for a purpose of His own. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II You disfranchise the majority, then; the greater part of "the inhabitants" have no share in establishing the form of government, or assigning the qualifications of voters. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I He was not afraid that at some distant period the blacks of the South would rise and disfranchise the whites. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III He says almost every lawyer in that body acknowledged, in private conversation, that the decision by which the women had been disfranchised was illegal. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV In point of fact, the theorists immediately proceeded to disfranchise half the race on account of sex, and a third of the remainder on account of infancy. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Amendment to the Federal Constitution that shall prohibit the States from disfranchising any of their citizens on account of sex. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Every borough with less than three hundred electors was to be disfranchised, and towns with less than five hundred electors were to lose one of their representatives. Lord John Russell Nine such disfranchised men had the right of voting restored to them during the last session of congress. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III It is no more likely that the women of Colorado will ever be disfranchised than that the men will be. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV They proceeded to suppress the newspapers that were against them, disfranchised the voters who had signed opposing or reactionary petitions, and closed the barriers. Lectures on the French Revolution Amendment that shall prohibit any State to disfranchise any of its citizens on account of sex. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Five years later, when the Puritans gained the ascendency in Maryland, they were guilty of the infamous ingratitude of disfranchising the very Catholic settlers by whom they had been so hospitably entertained. The Faith of Our Fathers It will scarcely be proposed to disfranchise men who are unfit to be soldiers by reason of age or bodily infirmity. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III A bill was passed disfranchising all such persons as had voluntarily stayed in neighbourhoods occupied by the British troops; their offence was called misprision of treason. The Critical Period of American History They elected the legislature by direct universal suffrage, disfranchised domestic servants, and made the ballot optional, and therefore illusory. Lectures on the French Revolution Disguise it as you may, the disfranchised class is ever a degraded class. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The American politicians dared not disfranchise the negroes; so they coerced everybody in theory and only the negroes in practice. What I Saw in America Were all you men disfranchised because that class or sect up in New York would not vote? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Rhode Island proposed to disfranchise such of her citizens as belonged to the order, albeit her most eminent citizen, Nathanael Greene, was one of them. The Critical Period of American History Instead of the Senate of Five Hundred and the assembled people, an oligarchy of Four Hundred sat in the Senate house, and all except five thousand were disfranchised—and these were not convened. Ancient States and Empires Resolved, That a man's government is worse than a white man's government, because, in proportion as you increase the tyrants, you make the condition of the disfranchised class more hopeless and degraded. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II It needed little apology to disfranchise such a small corporation as this, but the first Reform Bill had to deal with far greater anomalies. The Cornwall Coast But let me ask why, then, a large class of men remained disfranchised after these States again took up local government? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The inevitable rupture was only deferred for a few weeks, and arose out of motions for disfranchising East Retford and Penryn—a premonitory symptom of the great reform bill. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) I am disfranchised because I gave a cup of water to the lips of one of my dying boys on the battlefield. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Do you not know, Theodore, that we have vowed never to go disfranchised into the Kingdom of Heaven? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The restriction to residents would have disfranchised for ever or for a season most of our greatest scholars, the authors of the greatest works, for the last forty years. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 A sixteenth amendment to the national constitution, prohibiting the States from disfranchising United States citizens on the ground of sex, will be urged upon the forty-sixth congress by petitions, arguments and appeals. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III In the universal convulsion of civilization, the case of the several nations recalls the law of Solon, that in civil tumults the man who took neither side should be disfranchised. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 It disfranchises them by hundreds of thousands and degrades them all—even those who are admitted to be guiltless—from the rank of freemen to the condition of slaves. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Though disfranchised we have few women in the best sense, we have simply so many reflections, varieties, and dilutions of the masculine gender. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Because, if he had served his time out, he would have been ipso facto disfranchised. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete At the present time the men and women are alike disfranchised. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III By preventing O’Connell from taking his seat his wrongs are identified with those of the disfranchised freeholders. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I In his heart he desired that Mr. Griffenbottom might be made to retire into private life, and he knew that it would be well that the borough should be disfranchised. Ralph the Heir She maintained that the chief reason women were disfranchised was that men did not think about it, and the women did not either. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Wilkes anticipated the Reform Bill of a later time by proposing to disfranchise the rotten boroughs, and to give members in their stead to the counties and to the more populous and wealthy towns. History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815 A few, the leaders in the rebellion, are yet disfranchised, and no State has power to change this condition. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The boroughs were to be disfranchised at their own request, which was to be obtained by the purchase of their franchise from a fund provided by the state. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration If we go on it will lead to disfranchising the borough, and we none of us want that. Ralph the Heir She said that she felt keenly the degradation of being disfranchised. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Thomas Jones dared him to combat by accusing Ministers of seeking to disfranchise Ireland by corrupt means. William Pitt and the Great War With great respect for your frank and candid talk with one of the disfranchised, I am very sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III A large number of them would be disfranchised by a union. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration As for disfranchising the borough, I cannot say that I regard it in the least. Ralph the Heir When we demand equal rights of the Southern States, we must not be so inconsistent as to admit any new State with a constitution disfranchising citizens on account of color. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II However prosperous they might become, they could not dwell in political security with a portion of the citizens disfranchised. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch The leading men of the State were all disfranchised,—deprived of the privilege of voting, a privilege that was freely conferred on the negroes. Stories Of Georgia There is no reason why every Negro who is not fitted to vote should not be disfranchised. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization The objection to it which we now recognize,—that the Southern States might probably have forborne to educate the freedmen, and so left them disfranchised,—was not then prominent. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement As capital has ever ground labor to the dust, is it just and generous to disfranchise the poor and ignorant because they are so? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Mr. Doolittle proposed and advocated an amendment providing that nothing in the bill should be construed to disfranchise persons who have received pardon and amnesty. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States He considered that the House of Assembly had unconstitutionally disfranchised a large portion of His Majesty's subjects, and rendered ineligible, by an authority they did not possess, another, and not inconsiderable class of the community. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 In Georgia when they gained power they have practically disfranchised him. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 From the outset of the war all who had taken part on the Royalist side had been disfranchised as "malignants," and this disfranchisement had been rigorously enforced even in the elections to the Convention. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 May they, therefore, be properly and justly disfranchised? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II He preferred that the disfranchising clause should be embodied in an act of Congress. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States An habitual drunkard was punished by having a great D made of "Redd Cloth" hung around his neck, or sewed on his clothing, and he was disfranchised. Customs and Fashions in Old New England They cannot be driven away, they cannot be slain, they cannot be disfranchised. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 In every case as many white men as possible were disfranchised on one pretext or another as "disloyal." A History of the United States I would, therefore, suggest to your honorable body that you provide for the election of an equal number of delegates at large from the disfranchised classes. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II He thought that opposition to its third section was a rebuke to those States which had passed laws disfranchising rebels. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States The delight of her own loveliness, of her own triumphant health and activity, would have been increased tenfold by the sight of, by power over, such stultified and hopelessly disfranchised human creatures. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The opening paragraph proposes that "the fifty boroughs having the smallest population according to the latest census should be disfranchised altogether." A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV During the seventies and eighties the Freedmen were to a considerable extent disfranchised by means of "election devices, practices and intimidations." The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Now is the time for every disfranchised class to make known its wants. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II I approve of the proposition which disfranchises the enemies of the country. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Conversely, several unpopular commoners were ennobled in order to disfranchise them. Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. This proposal had Lord Durham's full approval, and he noted the fact that according to his calculation it would disfranchise all boroughs having a population of not more than 1400. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV As the intense bitterness of the war died out there was strong agitation to restore the right of suffrage to the disfranchised citizens. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 The Legislatures of 1801 and 1821 furnish you a precedent for extending to disfranchised classes the right to vote for delegates to a Constitutional Convention. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II But, sir, we do not propose to disfranchise even these seven hundred and fifty thousand. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Such disfranchised forces, irresponsible free-booters, may be useful to us for certain purposes, but human habitations standing secure on their foundations are better for us. Creative Unity Then, again, an Act of Parliament was passed disfranchising the class of voters in Ireland who were called the Forty-shilling Freeholders, who formed a large proportion of O'Connell's constituents. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV And whatever State disfranchises any portion of its people violates this provision of the Constitution. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The Constitutional Convention of Rhode Island, in 1842, affords another precedent of the power of the Legislature to extend the suffrage to disfranchised classes. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II A large minority of the Republican members were thus prevented from voting against the clause disfranchising the late rebels until 1870. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States The plan proposed disfranchises no one, does not even interfere with the right of the States to settle the conditions of the franchise. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays Now turn to the next sections of the Russian constitution and see who are disfranchised. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Elsewhere property qualifications were imposed which disfranchised probably about one third of the adult male population. Union and Democracy But the moment that you erect a standard of intelligence which is sufficient to exclude women as a sex, that moment most of the male sex would be disfranchised. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II First, the amendment as it is now reported from the committee is objectionable, to my mind, because it admits by implication that a State has the right to disfranchise large masses of its citizens. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Within the last twelve months Georgia disfranchised her colored citizens by a constitutional subterfuge and Florida attempted the same crime. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time Under that system in the United States the loyal men and women who bought Liberty Bonds, in their country's peril would be disfranchised while the slacker would have the right of suffrage. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 In these organizations the voice of the disfranchised classes was articulate for the first time. Union and Democracy "White males" are the nobility of this country; they are the privileged order, who have legislated as unjustly for women and negroes as have the nobles of England for their disfranchised classes. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II No man can show that in that Constitution which the fathers made, and under which we have lived, the right is recognized in any State to disfranchise large masses of its citizens because of race. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States The white man has political power, accumulated wealth, and knowledge of social forces; the black man is practically disfranchised, poor, and unable to discriminate between the criminal and the martyr. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time First, it disfranchises any man who becomes a resident of the State of Ohio, or who was a citizen of Ohio, who fought in the rebellion against the country. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes That is the result of belonging to a disfranchised class. A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland Belonging to a disfranchised class, I have no political antecedents to recommend me to your support,—but my creed is free speech, free press, free men, and free trade,—the cardinal points of democracy. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II I deny that a State has the right to disfranchise a majority or even a minority of its citizens because of class or race. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Slavery is truly re-enacted in those States which have succeeded in disfranchising the Negro. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time In the next place, it disfranchises every man who deserted his comrades at the front, and ran away to vote the peace party ticket at the rear. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes Can it continue to hold them down as a disfranchised class? A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland Therefore, our demand for this hour is equal suffrage to all disfranchised classes, for the one and the same reason—they are all human beings. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Or if a State should prescribe as a qualification for the ballot such an ownership of property, real or personal, as would disfranchise the great body of her people, could not Congress most undoubtedly interfere? History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States It began to be hinted in leading articles that it was scarcely fair that Sir Rupert's constituents should be disfranchised because it pleased a disappointed politician to drift idly about the world. The Dictator It disfranchises him whether he voted that ticket or not, I may observe. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes Pauperism and crime and sometimes religious heterodoxy disfranchise. Society Its Origin and Development As the only way disfranchised citizens can appear before you, we availed ourselves of the sacred right of petition. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II In doing this, she had disfranchised one-half her voters. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States These hints had their effect upon the disfranchised constituents, who began to grumble. The Dictator Next the Fourteenth Amendment, disfranchising nearly all the trusted leaders of the Southern people, and then the "iron-clad oath," universal enfranchisement of the ignorant blacks, and "carpet-bag" government, with all their offensive consequences. Forty-Six Years in the Army If ever a borough deserved disfranchising, it was Liverpool on that election. Recollections of Old Liverpool In securing suffrage but to another shade of manhood, while we disfranchise fifteen million tax-payers, we come not one line nearer the republican idea. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II But the very fact that a vast portion of a people are disfranchised sows the seeds of continual and ever-recurring revolution and insurrection. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States "Massachusetts gave franchises to the members of the visible Church," but "inexorably disfranchised Churchmen, Royalists, and all the world's people." The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 They were not content even to disfranchise the leading rebels, according to the terms of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Forty-Six Years in the Army Boroughs containing fewer than 15,000 inhabitants were disfranchised as boroughs, becoming for electorial purposes portions of the counties in which they were situated. The Governments of Europe Half our population are disfranchised on the ground of sex; and though compelled to obey the laws and taxed to support the government, they have no voice in the legislation of the country. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II "I will ask the gentleman," said he, "if he thinks that those States that have excluded and disfranchised more than half of their native population have a republican form of government?" History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States They wished to61 reform the representation in Parliament in such wise as to disfranchise the rotten boroughs and give representatives to great towns like Leeds and Manchester. The War of Independence Then an act was passed providing for submitting that Constitution to the people of Virginia, with the privilege of voting separately on the disfranchising clause, which clause they, of course, rejected. Forty-Six Years in the Army In the convention were proposed the most stringent of all suffrage laws which would practically disfranchise many whites. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 They welcomed to their conventions Mormon women from Utah who came to Washington to protest efforts to disfranchise them as a means of discouraging polygamy. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian On the 7th of January Mr. Stevens proposed to amend his bill by inserting a provision that no person should be disfranchised as a punishment for any crime other than insurrection or treason. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States You thus disfranchise four fifths, to say the least, of God's elect. Bertha and Her Baptism At present they are disfranchised of their natural birthright, and those who treat them with this injustice need not wonder if they take their revenge in "creeps." Real Ghost Stories Its purport is to disfranchise all the people of color who were citizens of the free states. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. Then the question arose whether or not disfranchising Negro women would carry this penalty and the result was a rewording which struck out "color" and added "male." Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian It started a series of efforts that have affected the whole northern mind at least; and in Jackson's time the matter came up in Congress, and a law was passed disfranchising a duelist. A History of American Christianity Some years later the Puritans, being in a majority in the Maryland General Assembly, passed an act disfranchising Roman Catholics and members of the Church of England. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country Mr. Boyer, a Democratic member from Pennsylvania, declared that the effect of the amendment if adopted would be to disfranchise for a period of four years nine-tenths of the voting population of eleven States. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Then she waved her disfranchised guardian a kiss. The Lady Paramount One of Thaddeus Stevens' drafts read: "If any State shall disfranchise any of its citizens on account of color, all that class shall be counted out of the basis of representation." Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian Being found guilty, on their own confession, of having brought false charges against many of the aldermen, the Court of Common Council adjudged the whole of the accused to be disfranchised. London and the Kingdom - Volume I In the latter year the number was reduced to one, and in 1885 the town was disfranchised. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Are they," he asked, "to be disfranchised because they thought it was not the time to make such an expression? Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Nothing must be allowed to disfranchise manhood; and he who manumits the poet from social and ethical bonds is not logical, nor penetrative into the dark mystery of soul, nor is he the poet's friend. A Hero and Some Other Folks Case IV. is an election bill in California which prohibits independent nominations except upon petition of five per cent. of the voters, and thus disfranchises four per cent. of the voting population. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 If the negro be lazy, you may define laziness and disfranchise that. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 He deprived the black of all weapons of offence or defence, disfranchised him, shunted him off into the ghetto, and called the world to mock him in his lowly position. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights One of the greatest wrongs of the South is its convict lease system; and its lynch law, and its disfranchising statutes are like unto it. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro He proposes also to disfranchise the whites of the Southern States, enfranchise the negroes, destroy the State lines and erect on their ruins territories ruled by negroes whom his faction can control. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis Other persons were required to register during a twelve day period or be forever disfranchised. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 If the negro be ignorant, you may define ignorance and disfranchise that. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 This is the cause of labor and humanity, and the toiling and disfranchised masses of the world feel that their fate is involved in the result of our struggle. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 North Carolina, Maryland and Tennessee in the South, and Pennsylvania in the North, disfranchised their colored suffragists. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro For however destructive to their happiness this government might become, a disfranchised class could neither alter nor abolish it, nor institute a new one, except by the old brute force method of insurrection and rebellion. An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting All Asia is by him disfranchised at a stroke. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) If you will only disfranchise him for the qualities which you say unfit him to vote and not for his race or the color of his skin there is no Constitutional obstacle in your way. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 They were disfranchised by the censors and committed suicide. Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form And the inequalities between lord and serf, victor and vanquished, voter and disfranchised, existed in all the older states save those now known as the Landsgemeinde cantons. Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum But here there was no evidence of any wilful and malicious intention to deprive the plaintiff of his profits, or that they had disfranchised him with that intent, which is necessary to maintain this action. An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting It has disfranchised the law-breakers but has not had the effect of discouraging plural marriages. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 If the negro be vicious, you may define vice and disfranchise that. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 In those States, the bondman is disfranchised, and for the most part so are we. The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States No single sect was powerful enough to dominate after the Revolution, but, for the most part, Catholics and Jews were either disfranchised or excluded from office. History of the United States They were indeed guilty of an error in their proceedings to disfranchise him, in not going into any proof of the offence charged against him, but taking his silence as a confession. An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting He was now a qualified voter, where, before, he had been disfranchised. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope If the negro be poor, you may define poverty and disfranchise that. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 On his return from Europe, America disfranchised him, ostracised him and repudiated him, refusing, among other indignities, to let him ride in public coaches. Greenwich Village The black men of the South know full well that they were disfranchised by illegal and violent methods; they know that laws are purposely framed to defraud and to oppress them. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South It will not always be men combining to disfranchise all women; native born men combining to abridge the rights of all naturalized citizens, as in Rhode Island. An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting They are often virtually disfranchised; and indeed there are advocates for their celibacy. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson If the negro be idle, you may define idleness and disfranchise that. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Whole masses of electors whose right to vote had been established at the previous election were arbitrarily disfranchised. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy The Uitlanders and their children were disfranchised for ever, and as far as legislation could make it sure the country was preserved by entail to the families of the Voortrekkers. The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs It was plain to every one that its purpose was to evade the Fifteenth Amendment, and disfranchise the illiterate voters of one race without disfranchising those of the other. The Facts of Reconstruction Under our complicated systems of registration, they are often disfranchised at both. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 Officeholders are neither disfranchised nor forbidden the exercise of political privileges, but their privileges are not enlarged nor is their duty to party increased to pernicious activity by officeholding. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term Apparently, though not certainly, then, the following would also be disfranchised: 1. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy A number of his supporters among the prominent officials of the Civil Service were disfranchised by the action of President Kruger because they had favoured his rival. The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs The intent of that clause was to make it possible to disfranchise the illiterate blacks without disfranchising the illiterate whites. The Facts of Reconstruction It is not very easy for the legislature to plunder or blackmail individuals, even when they are disfranchised, because it has to be done by general laws, and direct methods arouse direct opposition. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 Lawyer Smith, "whose eloquence had disfranchised the Jews," was called upon to sum up. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens Against that foundation the Bolsheviki hurled their destructive power, creating a discriminating class suffrage, disfranchising a great part of the Russian people—not merely the bourgeoisie, but a considerable part of the working class itself. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy The various towns which had formerly been entitled to representation in Parliament were deprived of this right, and have remained disfranchised ever since. The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs They are not due primarily to the fact that colored men are disfranchised, but that white men are prevented from giving effective expression to their honest political opinions and convictions. The Facts of Reconstruction It is, economically, to a very great extent disfranchised; politically, it is altogether disfranchised. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 At the same time, the Polish legislators were fair-minded enough to refrain from forcing the Jews, these disfranchised pariahs, into military service. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) If the language used means anything at all, apparently she would be so disfranchised. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy For what else do they disfranchise the people? The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) The Democrats had no serious objection to its ratification if the clause disfranchising most of their leaders were eliminated. The Facts of Reconstruction Theoretically the managers of corporations are now effectually disfranchised. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 The body of disfranchised men will not be perfectly satisfied to remain always in that state. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) They have long been considered the natural directors of social life and, in spite of being disfranchised, they mainly handle such matters at present. Woman in Modern Society They were largely disfranchised and their former servants often became the legal rulers. A History of the McGuffey Readers It is provided also in state constitutions, that electors committing infamous crimes are disfranchised. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. They could help in the government of both, but are disfranchised in one or the other. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 Leave the colored out of account as long as they are disfranchised. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel In Idaho, all residents of the red light district have been disfranchised by statute; and practically they do not vote. Woman in Modern Society Before the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, the States had the power to disfranchise on account of race or color. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Hence the right of voting at elections is called the elective franchise; and an elector, when deprived of this privilege, is disfranchised. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. To disfranchise women is deliberately to turn from knowledge and grope in ignorance. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil The South has disfranchised Negroes and lynched a few. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel The pit lost its old influence—was, so to say, disfranchised. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Had Irishmen been disfranchised in this country, they would have made common cause with the negro in fighting for his rights, but when exalted above him, they proved his worst enemies. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years They went further; they disfranchised them; and, having once begun with an act of injustice, they could set no bounds to it. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Further than this, it is argued that many of the disfranchised people recognize these facts. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil It can refuse to seat any member who comes from a district where voters have been disfranchised: it can judge for itself whether this has been done, and there is no appeal from its decision. The Negro Problem Lunatics, idiots, paupers, and persons convicted of certain high crimes are disfranchised; that is, are not permitted to vote. Elements of Civil Government The old Constitution did not disfranchise women, and we begged you not to put the word 'male' into the Fourteenth Amendment. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years A few days later - October 4, 1940 - the Vichy French Council of Ministers decreed the Statute des Juifs which disfranchised the Jews in all France. The Grey Book From such a point of view one easily sees the strength of the demand for the ballot on the part of certain disfranchised classes. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil It was ridiculous to describe the Commons as representative of property so long as places like Manchester and Sheffield were virtually disfranchised. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham In most States, in addition to other penalties, persons convicted of giving or taking bribes are disfranchised; that is, are not permitted to vote thereafter. Elements of Civil Government The Democrats, seeing this, are now determined to disfranchise them. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years It disfranchises, for the time, the conscientious objector who will do no national service. Women and War Work The oligarchy, which these two men undertook to manage, had accumulated against itself the discontent of overtaxed, disfranchised, jealous burghers. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series He would have disfranchised the rotten boroughs and excluded placemen from Parliament. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham This practically disfranchised all the white men of the South over twenty-five years old. Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question I have been writing to Mr. Garrison to make some mention of us, "the only disfranchised class now remaining," in his last Liberator. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years No section will be disfranchised by this proposal, for the true function of all minor sections is to influence the policies of the two main parties. Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government A limited suffrage secures governmental efficiency, if at all, at the expense of the political education and training of the disfranchised class, and at the expense, also, of a permanent and radical popular political grievance. The Promise of American Life That is, the majority of the taxpayers were disfranchised for ever! Native Races and the War Under that rule either house of Congress, without debate, without law, without reason, without justice, could, by the sheer exercise of its will or its caprice, disfranchise any State in the electoral college. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) All I know or care of parties now and until women are free, is "woman and her disfranchised—crucified!" The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years As for the Macedonian garrison, Menyllus took care that the Athenians suffered no inconvenience from it; but more than twelve thousand of the citizens were disfranchised under the new constitution, on account of their poverty. Plutarch's Lives Volume III. Has our Government a right to disfranchise the polygamists of Utah? Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Two seats have since been disfranchised, and we thus arrive at 103—the figure at which the representation of the country stands to-day. Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Who then are the voters of nine counties who kept the women of an entire state disfranchised? Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment In securing suffrage but to another shade of manhood, while disfranchising 15,000,000 women, we come not one line nearer the republican idea. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years From this assembly neither slaves, foreigners, nor disfranchised citizens were excluded, but every one, men and women alike, were allowed to be present and to address the people. Plutarch's Lives Volume III. The argument that would here disfranchise women has been used before now to disfranchise clergymen. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays By a species of legerdemain in the communities in which he is most numerous and most needs protection, he is to all intents and purposes disfranchised. The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights It is possible that behind this commonly spoken objection, lies a hope and belief that Southern women will remain disfranchised forevermore. Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment In her diary she writes: "Even Charles Sumner bends to the spirit of compromise and presents a constitutional amendment which concedes the right to disfranchise law-abiding, tax-paying citizens." The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years |
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