| 单词 | enfranchise |
| 例句 | The Nineteenth Amendment enfranchised women, but some states quickly moved to deny nonwhite women—and men—the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Not because it enfranchises black men, but because it does not enfranchise all women, black and white.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But the law enfranchised many women, and not just white women — a fact not lost on New Jerseyites of the era. On the Trail of America’s First Women to Vote 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Reconstruction’s enfranchising policies were a “tragedy,” Pike wrote, nothing but “the slave rioting in the halls of his master.” A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Two books trace the origins of IS to America’s misbegotten invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in Iraq in 2003, the subsequent Sunni backlash against the newly enfranchised Shias and the appalling civil war in Syria. Rolling into town 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z In 1867, he proposed the Reform Act that enfranchised working-class voters for the first time. One nation in one man: the portrait of Benjamin Disraeli 2012-10-03T14:52:44Z “A historical atlas enfranchises the whole nation,” he said. Lab in Richmond Animates Comprehensive 1932 U.S. Atlas 2013-12-25T22:20:08Z On the plus side, he commends the nation’s eventual extension of political rights to far more people than the landholding white male minority enfranchised in the Revolutionary era. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The bishop was a keen defender of English Jews, who were enfranchised by an act of Parliament in 1753, only to see the act repealed a year later amid anti-Semitic public protest. ‘Jacob and His Twelve Sons’: Zurbarán’s Biblical All-Stars 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z A New York faction, led by Anthony and Stanton, opposed the amendment on the grounds that it would enfranchise black men but leave out women of all races. A Trove on the Women’s Suffrage Struggle, Found in an Old Box 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z The resulting series were lapped up by newly enfranchised teenagers drawn to the burgeoning multiplexes of the 1980s. Nearing the endgame: is Hollywood's lust for sequels destroying cinema? 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z This was, after all, the will of the recently enfranchised masses. The establishment uncovered: how power works in Britain 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z But, he says, there is still a "Darwinism of music" – meaning only those who can challenge the imagination will ultimately succeed amid the swathes of new technologically enfranchised musicians. Trumpeter Arve Henriksen: Norway's top brass 2013-02-03T20:30:01Z But he wants to enfranchise more people, from across the democratic spectrum, in making those distinctions. Perspective | A voice for the arts, and social justice, joins the National Gallery of Art board 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z At a time when voting was extended to more working men, its newly enfranchised visitors could rant at a disliked politician or stare impertinently into the eyes of royalty. What makes Madame Tussauds' wax work? 2011-02-26T09:00:02Z Unlike firms in most other industries, Google has to enfranchise its employees: if they feel stymied, they will simply take their creativity and ambition elsewhere. Don’t be modest 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The scripts create an engaging arc through which Max discovers where she belongs, but she's never a fully enfranchised participant in their emotional highs and lows. "A League of Their Own" makes up for the past's missed swings, but isn't quite a home run 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Because a state’s number of electors is based on total population, not actual voters, it gives the states no incentive to enfranchise new groups of people, or to make voting easier for those eligible. Why We Should Abolish the Electoral College 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z 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 Chute writes about predatory capitalism from the vantage point of the Mainers who are the least enfranchised and most abandoned, “stressed to the breaking point,” she has written. Read Your Way Through Maine 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z “Sneakers are enfranchising men into the fashion system without posing a threat to their individuality,” she said. From Humble Sneaker to Luxury Icon 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z He used this common touch to great, enfranchising ends. Norman Wisdom - a life in clips 2010-10-04T22:55:00Z For the first several presidential elections following the passage of the 19th Amendment, newly enfranchised women voted much like their husbands. Perspective | Donald Trump keeps begging women to like him. They keep saying no. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Biden’s new Pacific Strategy claimed to be built to defend sovereignty and freedom, yet its fulcrum was the least enfranchised place in the nation. The America That Americans Forget 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z “To have the person who was always part of enfranchising the community be disenfranchised the way he was, was unconscionable,” Norton said. Church prayers in South L.A. underscore high stakes as Mark Ridley-Thomas bribery trial begins 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z A Republican from Montana, Rankin pushed for the 19th Amendment that enfranchised women across the country four years later. Opinion | ‘History months’ celebrate those who were written out of the story 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z It’s time for D.C. residents to be enfranchised into our democracy by becoming the 51st state of our union. Opinion | Congress should stay out of D.C. issues 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z But the Electoral Commission says only one in five newly enfranchised 16 and 17-year-olds registered to vote ahead of May's local elections. Automatic voter registration on cards in Wales 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Their efforts to provide Black people with greater legal rights earned them the support of African Americans in both the South, where they were newly enfranchised, and the Northeast. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Lewis said her reaction to Monday’s ruling was “utter shock,” namely because she feels the board typically errs on the side of enfranchising candidates to grant them ballot access. McDuffie to appeal ruling, while Spiva starts TV ads in D.C. AG race 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z While neither group is affiliated with Abrams’ campaign, they are continuing voter registration and education initiatives predicated on her goal of enfranchising more minority communities. With Biden’s voting rights push stalled, Georgia activists regroup 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Political calculations usually drove reform, as office seekers angled for the votes of the newly enfranchised. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z New proposed legislation could bring mobile voting to the District, a measure that supporters say would enfranchise more eligible voters throughout the city. New legislation could bring mobile voting to the District 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Voters from less enfranchised areas will fume if services and shelters are forced into their neighborhoods, but they often don’t show up at meetings. Column: California Governor’s Mansion is Empty. Should we let homeless people move in? 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Historically, the practice has been used to enfranchise voters who lack access to polls or drop boxes. Republicans in Florida can't keep their messaging on voting rights straight 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z “When Dr. King was marching, I was a teenager. Now it’s about voting and how important it is for people to be enfranchised.” Martin Luther King Jr.’s family marches in D.C. for Senate action on voting rights bill 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z He also wanted to curry the votes of newly enfranchised women; Hardwick had opposed the 19th Amendment, so he thought he needed to do something big to make up for it. The Senate’s first woman was also its last enslaver 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z “We have such an engaged electorate here in D.C., and it’s very important that we enfranchise all eligible voters.” New legislation could bring mobile voting to the District 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z But if they lose, he said, “we’ll be soliciting votes from any newly enfranchised New York voter.” New York City becomes the largest municipality in the U.S. to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z That act was a result of a prolonged, sometimes blundering effort by Congress and President Ulysses S. Grant to protect newly emancipated and enfranchised Black people in the brief post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction. The deadly history behind the 1871 law underpinning the Charlottesville trial 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z It doesn’t matter whether they are citizens or aliens; free, imprisoned or enslaved; enfranchised or disenfranchised; adults or children; propertied or propertyless. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: For peat’s sake, it’s time for a geography lesson 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z But they also promised to enfranchise women and free them from the shackles of domestic drudgery. Opinion | Does Co-Housing Provide a Path to Happiness for Modern Parents? 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z But it’s classic Ingrid in that she believes in enfranchising people. The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z He said his work is part of a mission to enfranchise and change the narrative of incarcerated people. D.C. reforms gave inmates a vote. Now an elected official is working from jail. 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z “What I don’t want to see is a system that enfranchises some people and not others and we need the research to really tell what happened here,” Mr. de Blasio said. After New York Tests a New Way of Voting, Other Cities May Do the Same 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z Now, state legislators, apparently fearful of a fully enfranchised Native electorate, have chosen to attack the strategies that Native Americans use to overcome these unreasonable barriers. Opinion | Native voters are clearing hurdles. That’s why some politicians want to make them higher. 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z “It looks like weak against the strong, the disenfranchised against the enfranchised, the stateless against the state.” Tensions among Democrats grow over Israel as the left defends Palestinians 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z Moving North enfranchised millions of African Americans, impacting the political sphere, Grossman said. Great Migration creates ties between Mississippi, Illinois 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z For Mr. Dawson of Crossroads, the organization’s sparseness presents a missed opportunity to enfranchise New Yorkers of color. He Honors Black New Yorkers. Not All Black Activists Are Thrilled. 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Or will Democrats finally focus on enfranchising new voters and establishing a broader, longer-term coalition of support? The Lincoln Project's implosion: A perfect time for Democratic donors to rethink their spending 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z After a short-lived period of Reconstruction in which Black men were briefly enfranchised, white supremacy regained direct legal control in the South, and flourished in a de factofashion in the rest of the country. The rubble of empire 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z What were once called “riots” that culminated in the killing of newly freed and enfranchised Black people are now called “massacres,” he said. After the Capitol Was Stormed, Teachers Try Explaining History in Real Time 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed the equal citizenship of Black people and enfranchised Black men. Opinion | The challenges of teaching the Constitution in the age of Trump 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Pass another voting rights act that enfranchises as many Americans as possible. Opinion | We’ve Seen the Ugly Truth About America 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “It is all really important. People feel enfranchised if the people making decisions in the government look like them. Otherwise, they feel this is not a real representative democracy.” Biden picks a Goldilocks Cabinet, neither too left or right 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z “Election practices need not cater to the lowest common denominator, and Plaintiffs’ arguments would improperly penalize those counties that are enfranchising voters by helping them avoid ballot disqualification,” they wrote. Trump campaign lawsuit over Pennsylvania vote heads to court 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z “Wasn’t the legislative intent of the statute that we’re talking about was to enfranchise, not disenfranchise voters?” With His Path to Re-election Narrowing, Trump Turns to the Courts 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z “They don’t like the late counting of ballots because they don’t like more eligible voters to be enfranchised,” she said. Pennsylvania’s governor pleads for patience as GOP mounts challenges to the count 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z But what I didn’t expect was that voters — like Olow — seem to be taking matters into their own hands and enfranchising themselves in record numbers. Why are so many people voting early this year? Here’s one Kent woman’s answer 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Anywhere a court might be willing to relax statutory strictures in favor of enfranchising voters, this leniency is likely to be subject to a new U.S. Opinion | The Supreme Court ruling on ballot deadlines may be more of a reprieve for Democrats than a win 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z The California Republican Party said it began to use the boxes — placed in counties and districts with important “target” tightly contested races on the ballot — in an effort to enfranchise GOP voters. California GOP pushes back against state election officials on unofficial ballot boxes 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Meade said his group would be in charge of spending the money raised by Bloomberg and will continue fundraising to enfranchise more Floridians with felony convictions. Mike Bloomberg raises $16 million to allow former felons to vote in Florida 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z After all, the same legislation that enfranchised white women deprived all Indigenous people of these same federal civil rights. Australia doesn’t have much to show for celebrating women’s achievements | Clare Wright 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z And, after years of protest and organizing by black leaders, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, which intended to enfranchise black voters by outlawing discriminatory tactics such as literacy tests. Civil death: how millions of Americans lost their right to vote 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z But newly minted doctors tend to be more outspoken about the need to get involved in enfranchising patients, and trying to fix a broken health care system. In Era of Sickness, Doctors Prescribe Unusual Cure: Voting 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Lawmakers also inserted language that would allow prisoners to vote while incarcerated on felonies — joining only Vermont and Maine in enfranchising such inmates. Bowser signs D.C. police bill that compels ID of officers who used deadly force, enfranchises prisoners 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Following the war, he helped organize the Ku Klux Klan, which used violence to maintain white control over newly enfranchised former slaves, and served as its first grand wizard. Editorial Roundup: Tennessee 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z To become fully enfranchised adults who, particularly in this time of righteous protest against systemic racism, can try to make a difference. Column: My daughter isn't going back to college. I am relieved and heartbroken 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z “That said, it’s historic and significant that a city council would enfranchise this population.” D.C. on the brink of allowing inmates to vote from prison 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z It would also enfranchise D.C. felons while they are incarcerated — adding the nation’s capital to Vermont and Maine as the only jurisdictions that allow prisoners to vote. D.C. Council reconsiders sweeping police bill 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Why doesn’t the federal government enfranchise those voters for congressional elections by retroceding that land to Maryland. Power Rankings: Iowa swings for the fences 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z The best way to enfranchise the 700,000 people who live in the District, he said, would be for D.C. to rejoin Maryland, which ceded part of the land needed to create the nation’s capital. D.C. statehood approved by U.S. House for first time in history 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z One hundred years ago, the 19th Amendment enfranchised millions of women across the United States following a seven-decade campaign. 19 facts about the 19th Amendment on its 100th anniversary 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z “But we need to be able to enfranchise the disenfranchised.” Amid Pandemic and Upheaval, New Cyber Risks to the Presidential Election 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z In North Carolina, the politician William A. Graham believed enfranchising blacks would “roll back the tide of civilization two centuries at least.” Opinion | Trump Reveals the Truth About Voter Suppression 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z That same UN vote also enfranchised Palestinian Arabs to create their own state. Calendar Feedback Sun., March 22, 2020 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z But other Radicals thought the federal government could go further than enfranchising black men. Opinion | The Equality That Wasn’t Enough 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Some 500,000 African American women could vote in states where their male counterparts were enfranchised, according to the 1920 U.S. 19 facts about the 19th Amendment on its 100th anniversary 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Since women were enfranchised 101 years ago, only five Democratic women and two Republicans have attained enough political exposure and stature to be taken seriously as candidates in the two major parties. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z One recent analysis, a 2015 review of Iowa’s brief restoration of the vote to ex-felons, found that only about 15 percent of recently enfranchised people cast ballots in the 2008 presidential election. Kentucky Gives Voting Rights to Some 140,000 Former Felons 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z An enfranchised people tended to use their votes to pressure politicians into more social spending, clogging the arteries of free exchange. Democracy doesn’t matter to the defenders of ‘economic freedom’ | Quinn Slobodian 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Washington, notably, was the penultimate state in the push to enfranchise 26 million American women. A Centennial Celebration of Suffrage: The Backstory: Washington women were a decade ‘Ahead of the Curve’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Cooper believes the good that cell technology can do — spark productivity, enfranchise the poor — far outstrips any downsides. How Phones Made the World Your Office, Like It or Not 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z “As we look forward to 2020, states need to enfranchise voters, not find ways to reject their votes. If they don't, the courts should step in.” Progressives accuse establishment of "stealing" NYC D.A. election after 2,300 votes tossed out 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z The Fifteenth Amendment, which enfranchised black men, was part of a calculation meant to produce more Republican voters. The Supreme Court Just Legitimized a Cornerstone Element of Voter Suppression 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z If women did get the right to vote, both parties wanted credit—or, at least, the votes of the newly enfranchised women. The Imperfect, Unfinished Work of Women’s Suffrage 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Over time, popular support for expanding rights resulted in enfranchising all of those groups, and we dismiss their prior exclusion from democracy as history. Opinion | D.C. should expand voting rights to its incarcerated citizens 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z There needs to be a better way to deal with mistakes rather than stymieing efforts to enfranchise new and previously lapsed voters. Tennessee editorial roundup 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The question was stark: Would you support enfranchising incarcerated people like the Boston Marathon bomber or convicted rapists? Bernie Sanders Opens Space for Debate on Voting Rights for Incarcerated People 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z “Does this mean that you would support enfranchising people like the Boston Marathon bomber, a convicted terrorist and murderer?” CNN town halls ignore Sri Lanka terror attacks 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The natural inference is that they worry that newly enfranchised ex-convicts, who are disproportionately African American, will mostly vote for Democrats. Opinion | Florida Republicans are trying to thwart both justice and the will of the people 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z “One of our highest medium term priorities must be to enfranchise—to empower, Americans,” he wrote on Twitter. Democrats Push to Make Washington, D.C., the Fifty-first State 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z “India for failing to credibly enfranchise and incorporate Kashmiris, Muslims or otherwise, and Pakistan for continuing to harbor Kashmiri separatist militants and fundamentalist groups for conducting cross-border attacks with impunity.” Kashmir crisis could weaken U.S.-backed Afghanistan peace talks, says Pakistani ambassador 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z The right-wing outlet Breitbart seized on his stance, calling it “insane” and asserting it would mean enfranchising convicted murderers like Dylann S. Roof, who killed nine black parishioners in a South Carolina church in 2015. Bernie Sanders Opens Space for Debate on Voting Rights for Incarcerated People 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z But to truly enfranchise those excluded from the digital economy, says Evgeny Morozov, the left must think more radically than the neoliberals and technocrats who currently represent them. US briefing: Michael Cohen, Medicare for All and Trudeau scandal 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Many, particularly Elizabeth Cady Stanton, responded with racial attacks on Douglass and the notion that African American men would be enfranchised before women. Frederick Douglass died Feb. 20, 1895, just hours after his public makeup with Susan B. Anthony 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Those clashes may prove to be a harbinger for the 2020 elections, when the Florida voter rolls will include the newly enfranchised ex-felons. Florida Secretary of State Resigns After Blackface Photos Surface 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Everyone, almost, now had the vote: women over 30 were enfranchised in 1918. Armistice Day: victory and beyond | Neal Ascherson 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Florida voters chose to enfranchise more than 1 million former felons in the state, a breathtaking extension of voting rights that required the support of both Democratic and Republican voters to pass. Opinion | Despite GOP efforts, democracy advanced Tuesday 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z They cited continuing battles to enfranchise voters across the country who have long been marginalized. Native Americans Score Big Wins in Midterms After Years of Efforts 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z When I use the term “multiracial democracy,” I mean a democracy in which all people are fully enfranchised and people are not disenfranchised in a way that significantly parallels the country’s racial hierarchy. Race, class and justice: After the midterms, a new way forward for Democrats 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z “She helped enfranchise more than 50 percent of the population. That’s huge.” Perspective | Women who don’t vote? Explain yourselves to Grandma Flanagan. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z He says it will “enfranchise the District’s young people and bring their voices into the political process.” Bill to lower city voting age to 16 heads to final vote 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z To its supporters, Amendment 4 represents a potential civil rights triumph: It could enfranchise more people at once than any single initiative since women’s suffrage. Will Florida’s Ex-Felons Finally Regain the Right to Vote? 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z This is the idea free speech and the idea of limits on detention, the idea of democracy, the idea of equal treatment of women, the idea of enfranchising people that were disenfranchised. Concentration camps in America? Author Andrea Pitzer reminds us they already exist 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z It would take another half-century — and a new suffrage campaign, with black women in a leading role — before that black community was fully enfranchised, through the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Opinion | How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Possible partners, such as the newly enfranchised, hard-right Islamist parties, are potentially troublesome. Challenge of Pakistan military remains for Khan as voters hope for new dawn 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Republicans say the integrity of the process demands ensuring that only the eligible vote, while Democrats say that voter fraud is practically nonexistent and that the goal should be to enfranchise all who are eligible. Supreme Court upholds Ohio’s way of removing infrequent voters from rolls 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z New Mexico, where Native Americans now account for about 10.5 percent of the population, was the last state to enfranchise them, in 1962, according to the Library of Congress. New Mexico Could Elect First Native American Woman to Congress 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Ferguson — a seminal decision of 1896 that has long been considered one of the court’s least felicitous — the doctrine enfranchised the separation of the races in public facilities. Dovey Johnson Roundtree, Barrier-Breaking Lawyer, Dies at 104 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Louisiana required unanimous verdicts for its first 80 years of statehood, but after the civil war newly enfranchised black people started to serve on juries. The racist origin of state laws on juries is encouraging change 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z It celebrates the centenaries of two laws that enfranchised some British women and gave those over 21 the right to stand for Parliament. What modern campaigners can learn from the fight for women’s suffrage 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z What would that say about the capital of the “free world”? Making the District our 51st state would fully enfranchise citizens who live in the District. Opinion | Enfranchise the District, enfranchise the nation 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z By the late 19th century parliamentary reforms had given more men the right to vote in Britain, while petitions to enfranchise women were mocked and rejected. Suffragists or suffragettes - who won women the vote? 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z The restrictions placed on female agency at the time – especially through the institution of marriage, which women entered younger and were less enfranchised to leave than now – are staggering to imagine. That's patriarchy: how female sexual liberation led to male sexual entitlement | Van Badham 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Performed in two parts, the work opens with Echoes of Emmeline, which reflects on the suffragettes' struggle to be enfranchised. Radio 3 commissions suffragette anthem 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Low levels of literacy even among enfranchised white men The electoral college is as relevant as the feudal institutions it protects. Opinion | Let the People Pick the President 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z The United States once denied women many rights, but it slowly enfranchised them. Opinion | Trump is part of the Saudi story 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Marian was 8 when the 19th Amendment enfranchised women, and she canvassed with her mother for a female mayoral candidate. Marian Cannon Schlesinger, Author and Eyewitness to History, Dies at 105 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Later they were enfranchised and sent to serve in the halls of government, national and statewide. We should have seen Trump coming | Ta-Nehisi Coates 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z For Abrams that means investing in voter turnout efforts to help enfranchise more Americans down the road. Meet the Democrat who wants to be America's first black female governor 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Wayne said his bill would reverse a racially motivated decision Nebraska lawmakers made more than 140 years ago to keep newly enfranchised black Americans from voting. Nebraska senators move bills to help felons re-enter society 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z Proponents of Assembly Bill 274 say making every vote count equally would enfranchise voters in states that are not political battlegrounds like Nevada. Nevada moves to join 11 other states in popular vote effort 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z But the suffragists who fought for a woman’s right to vote were invested in enfranchising a particular kind of woman. The Dream — and the Myth — of the ‘Women’s Vote’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z “That messaging is designed to enfranchise voters, not to disenfranchise voters,” Augino said. Pierce County defends voting reminder mailed with ballots 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z A few miles from Alexandria, a leading conservative critic of the governor’s policy is deeply uncomfortable with what he sees as a nakedly partisan attempt to enfranchise voters who largely lean Democratic. Virginia makes progress in push to restore voting rights for ex-convicts 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z In 1868, Smalls was a delegate in the state constitutional convention that enfranchised black men and created free public education. The perfect spot for a reckoning with Reconstruction 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z When the Republican Party captured the black vote in the early 20th century, enfranchised blacks were growing weary of having to choose between the lesser of two evils. The Black Vote: History Demands Strategy 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z But throughout the war was principally about political, social and economic exclusion and oppression of many of the most marginalized and least enfranchised sectors of society. Aching for Peace, but Also Justice, Colombians Weigh Deal With FARC 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Some in the women’s suffrage movement argued that women’s votes would balance those of newly enfranchised black men and immigrants, helping the 19th Amendment’s passage. Louisiana, Ryan Lochte, Usain Bolt: Your Thursday Briefing 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z This is especially true when the extremists emerge from places you'd least expect, such as the enfranchised mainstream of society. Homegrown Terror 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Bancroft was writing at a time when poor men were newly enfranchised, and a lot of his friends thought that these men were too stupid to vote. A Tale of Two Conventions 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z McAuliffe’s critics have made much of the fact that some of those he wants to enfranchise have committed violent crimes. Give felons and prisoners the right to vote 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Those orders will be mailed to newly enfranchised felons to the most recent addresses on file for them. McAuliffe promises to dodge court ruling against sweeping clemency order 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z The Amendment lowered the voting age to 18 in all elections and enfranchised more than 11 million new voters, about 4 million of them college students. College-Town Worry: Will 18-to-21 Voters Take Over? 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Tuvalu, it is fair to say, is also abroad, but since it was once an outpost of the British Empire, its citizens living in the U.K. are enfranchised. From Uganda but Live in Gibraltar? Come Vote in the ‘Brexit’ Referendum 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z In Takoma Park’s first election in which 16- and 17-year-olds could vote, newly enfranchised voters voted at twice the rate of other age groups. We’re young. We care. We want to vote. 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The law could add as many as 20,000 newly enfranchised voters in the city. Baltimore's low-income voters on who they're supporting for president 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z The change is estimated to enfranchise 20,000 new voters in Baltimore alone. The Freddie Gray election: death fuels call for 'uprising' at Baltimore polls 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Today we look at it and, not unfairly, say it was widening the distance between them and everyone else who wasn’t enfranchised. As Andrew Jackson Fades, a Look at How He Ended Up on Money When black men were enfranchised, in 1870, with the Fifteenth Amendment, the group became a voting bloc known as “the negro vote,” Vincent Hutchings, a political scientist at the University of Michigan, told me. Clinton, Sanders, and the Myth of a Monolithic “Black Vote” 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z “Back during the 19th century, when they were seeking to enfranchise a broader population , buttons helped communicate ideas about a candidate to those who might not be as educated as the elite,” he said. Attleboro shop has place in history due to political buttons 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Reconstruction reshaped citizenship laws, enfranchising black men and speeding up the race for female suffrage. Natural-Born Presidents 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z In Britain, historians say, class played a more pronounced role: The first law enfranchising women passed in 1918, but it only enfranchised women over 30 who owned property. How British Suffragettes Radicalized American Women 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z This broad quest backfired in its effort to enfranchise the Muslim Brotherhood and drive an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. How the Iran deal became the most strategic success of Obama’s presidency 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Signing the Voting Rights Act fulfilled Johnson’s vision from his Senate days to enfranchise blacks in the Deep South. The Unfortunate Evolution of the Voting Rights Act 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z And, when that failed, Anthony went to the polls and in 1872 tried to vote, insisting that the privileges-and-immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment had, in fact, enfranchised women. Sex and the Supreme Court 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Backers do not sit on the board; they are not enfranchised to review the company’s audited financials. ZPM Espresso and the Rage of the Jilted Crowdfunder 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Two years later she was running for one of two of the state’s at-large Congressional seats, which she secured by 6,000 votes with the help of Montana’s newly enfranchised women. Why March 4 is a Great Day for Women in Politics 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Most immigrant groups focus on promoting citizenship as the path to political influence, and the effort to enfranchise noncitizens remains controversial. Should legal immigrants have local voting rights? The issue comes to DC amid rising efforts and concerns 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z There is more to our history than the pain of legally enfranchised brutality depicted in Roots, Selma, or The Help. How to Make History by Tweeting an Old Photo 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z It speaks directly only to the sort of people who were enfranchised in 1787; the rest of us are left to make arguments by amendment and, failing that, by indirection. Sex and the Supreme Court 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The West was the first home of women’s suffrage in the U.S., with nearly every western state or territory enfranchising women long before women won the right to vote in eastern states. Women and the Myth of the American West 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Fully enfranchised when residing in one of the 50 states, they are not permitted to vote in federal elections, like other territorial residents, when living on the island. Juan Flores, a Scholar of Puerto Rican Culture in New York, Dies at 71 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z There is also an interest in enfranchising voters, or there should be. Three Choices in Texas: Abortion, Voter I.D.s, and Wendy Davis 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z And it wouldn't be the first time that a weird Kiwi disruptive practice has spread to the rest of the world: it was the first country in the world to enfranchise women. Kim Dotcom: from playboy entrepreneur to political firebrand 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z But he’s gotten ahead of his party in pushing aggressively to restore voting rights to convicted felons, a move that would disproportionately enfranchise minorities. Rand Paul’s about-face on civil rights 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Racist disenfranchisement ensured that Democrats would control the state’s affairs for almost another century, until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 enfranchised the state’s black residents. Did black voters save Thad Cochran? 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The aim would be to exclude ISIS, not enfranchise it. Piecing together the shattering Middle East One sign of disenchantment is the steady decline of the ANC’s share of eligible voters since the newly enfranchised queued to cast their votes 20 years ago. Where will the rainbow end? 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z He is credited with enfranchising the rural poor, but offended traditional elites and was eventually ousted in a coup in 2006. After Six Months of Fighting, Thai PM Yingluck Is Finally Ousted by Court 2014-05-07T06:43:39Z "The decision about which offenders to enfranchise, particularly those on the cusp of a custodial or community sentence, should follow reflective judgement rather than an immediate splenetic response." Call for some prisoners to get vote 2013-12-18T00:47:11Z White southern conservatives migrated to the Republican Party while newly enfranchised blacks identified with the party of civil rights, the Democrats. Mr. Limbaugh if you’re nasty: How right-wing mean media keeps conservatives on the fringe 2013-12-14T14:45:00Z Catholic social policy, with its commitment to justice, fulfilling work and the necessity to enfranchise every human, is one of the better components of the religion's tradition. Westerners might not get the top jobs any more, but our values prevail 2013-03-17T00:04:09Z It will view him less as the reformer who enfranchised Venezuela’s poor, and more as the blowhard who presided over food shortages, the world’s highest inflation rate and South America’s worst violent crime rate. Death Arrives for El Comandante: Venezuela's Hugo Chávez Dies at 58 2013-03-05T22:35:26Z It was intended to enfranchise the South’s freed slaves, and as long as federal troops were present in the South it worked. Voting rights: Preclearance, past and present 2013-02-28T16:08:31Z Closer to home, text giving is enfranchising many smaller organisations – not just charities, but also causes that want to raise money and capitalise on a nation that is increasingly spontaneous. Charities must make the most of smartphone and tablet technology 2013-02-15T06:30:01Z In the late 1860s, newly enfranchised African Americans began getting appointments as postmasters, clerks and letter carriers, said a 2012 report from the agency’s historian. Poll: Americans support 5-day mail delivery 2013-02-15T00:29:44Z Mr. Obama’s coalition is, in some ways, a coalition of the insufficiently enfranchised. Currents: An Inaugural That Spelled Evolution 2013-01-25T13:50:06Z Instead, he understood that changing the system meant finding ways of enfranchising those without a voice online. Aaron Swartz and the rise of the hacktivist hero 2013-01-14T19:51:32Z "The internet enfranchises people who are not native speakers to use English in significant and meaningful ways," says Naomi Baron, professor of linguistics at American University in Washington DC. How the internet is changing English 2012-12-14T00:46:46Z In a nation of newly enfranchised women, this kind of symbolism at the seat of government was especially unwelcome. City Room: Made in the Bronx, Exiled From Manhattan and Queens, Statue Will Head to Brooklyn 2012-11-27T21:06:35Z The prime minister has said the prospect of enfranchising others makes him "physically ill", and the vast majority of MPs from all parties want to see the blanket ban maintained. Prison vote plan to be outlined 2012-11-22T03:29:47Z The townspeople, enfranchised with most political power by reason of their numbers, knew little of the dormant resources of the inland country or its climatic vagaries. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z A more narrowly focused study by Grant Miller shows that newly enfranchised women voted for candidates who supported new public health-care programs that significantly reduced child mortality. Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: Gender and the Polls 2012-04-16T10:00:11Z In the course of his life he enfranchised individual slaves. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Everywhere the civil power became confirmed; disturbances even tended either to organize and especially to enfranchise it. The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z It is one of the glories of our faith that it has enfranchised our sisters, and raises them in spiritual calling to the full level of their brothers and husbands. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z 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 But no man of sense afraid is of enfranchising the Ladies. Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch 2012-03-06T03:00:20.097Z They enfranchised slaves, to show that devotion to the gods induced a sympathy with men. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z All sections of the middle class were enfranchised by the Measure of 1832. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z I had now been enfranchised nearly three hours, and had already used these first moments of liberty in picking a mortal quarrel with Mr. Butler. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z He will be gratefully remembered by enfranchised Englishmen, when milder and meaner men, who affected to look down upon him with contempt, are forgotten, or are recollected only to be despised. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z This situation in the Baptist Church appealed very strongly to the then recently enfranchised Negro in the reconstructed States. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z I rushed from my little prison enfranchised, ecstatic; but I misapprehended my own sensations. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z The Sergeant and Sir Robert would find it a trifle harder, he thought, to deal with the hundred-and-odd voters whom the Act enfranchised, than with the old Cripples! Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z In one point all agreed: That he was to be held pro mortuo, dead in law, and that the Countess was entirely relieved and enfranchised from her matrimonial engagements. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z They refused to educate or enfranchise the freedmen, and tried to reduce them to serfdom by heavy taxes and cruel punishments for petty crimes. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z They wore white veils on their straw hats, as is much the custom here, and had altogether the enfranchised air which city men are wont to assume in country retirement. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Don't you know that since the theatres were enfranchised they play all kinds everywhere? San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z After being enfranchised in consequence of a quarrel with his benefactor, he supported himself by copying and selling manuscripts. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z My father, an early and an earnest advocate of Female enfranchisement, used to counsel Lord Beaconsfield that to enfranchise women would be to establish the Conservative party for a century, at least. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Before they were enfranchised by Sir Michael le Fleming, the tenants of Skirwith had to supply such boons as reaping, mowing, ploughing, harrowing, carrying coals, and spinning a stipulated number of hanks of yarn. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z And the enfranchised intellect, who can guess the grandeur of its destiny—what new provinces of thought, new discoveries of truth, new revelations of science, new disclosures of the mysteries of nature and of God? Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z The soldier and the aristocrat cannot endure the test they are put to by the sympathetic male with a penchant for the enfranchised woman. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z The soldier, enfranchised without other qualification, would find his children slaves. 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 They were His rightful subjects; they were the enfranchised citizens of His kingdom. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z “The whole issue was about enfranchising women into the political process,” Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Riyadh-based democracy activist, said by phone yesterday. King Abdullah Grants Saudi Women Right to Vote for First Time 2011-09-25T21:22:03Z “The whole issue was about enfranchising women into the political process,” Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Riyadh-based democracy activist, said by phone today. King Abdullah Gives Saudi Women Right to Vote for First Time 2011-09-25T16:33:31Z When your bodies therefore Reach the grave their goal, Softly will we care for Each enfranchised soul. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z Holding to Christ, and drawing from Him by faith a share in His new life, we shall no longer be under the yoke of law, but enfranchised into the obedience of love, which is liberty. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z To this most glorious and enfranchising truth, Scripture bears the amplest testimony. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z It was an appeal to the operative classes who had been only recently enfranchised by the Reform Bill. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z In 1783, the treaty of peace was concluded, by which the western boundary of the enfranchised Colonies was declared to be the Mississippi. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z The enfranchised people could not allow the allied monarchs of Europe to rear again, upon the soil of republican France, and in the midst of thirty millions of freemen, an execrated and banished dynasty. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z If she was weary, so were the men; if she desired the consideration due her sex, then must she enfranchise herself from the sexless struggle for a living wage.... Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z It was, he felt, his appointed task to endeavour to make her see and appreciate the truth which illuminated his enfranchised spirit. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z Spirits have sought this because they have been seeing that free and extensive intercommunings between dwellers in flesh and enfranchised ones might greatly facilitate the advance of both classes in beneficence and happiness. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z It is to poetic license, he says, that we owe nearly all the beautiful figures with which poets, in their divine rapture, enfranchising the laws of grammar, have enriched their works. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Mr Shindler thinks the costs of enfranchising long-term expats would be "nothing", with only "half a dozen" or so extra people voting in each constituency. Harry's war 2011-05-17T07:30:04Z Then Grant, aided by newly enfranchised Southern blacks in states reconstructed by Congress, swept to victory with his famous campaign slogan, "Let Us Have Peace." How the "Lost Cause" poisoned our history books 2011-05-01T14:01:00Z His faithful work was honoured, and in the deep grass now He strays and lows contentment, enfranchised from the plough. Love, Worship and Death Some Renderings from the Greek Anthology 2011-04-21T02:00:45.290Z And if a precedent is asked for the particular remedy proposed, the Acts enabling any copyholder to enfranchise his holding should be consulted. Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day 2011-04-19T02:00:17.257Z Every weapon was lowered obedient to his voice, and proudly the enfranchised animal breasted his way towards a wooded isle a few hundred yards off. Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z Let us not dissipate our energies in internecine warfare, nor yet seek to perpetuate the drawbacks of our partisan system of government by enfranchising the women who now stand outside politics. Anti-Suffrage Essays 2011-03-28T02:00:24.710Z The inhabitants of Africa, Asia, and Europe, enfranchised by an Imperial edict, were thankful to be Roman citizens. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z But during Thursday's debate, a succession of MPs - mainly from the Conservative benches - said enfranchising prisoners was incompatible with their view of justice, would not reduce re-offending and was unacceptable to most of the public. Ministers face prison vote test 2011-02-11T12:49:10Z On the 15th of May, 1791, the National Assembly had passed a decree, admitting, by a precise designation, all enfranchised of all colors who were born of free parents to the right of suffrage. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z They are a section of the electorate few politicians are likely to canvass - but if moves to enfranchise them succeed, many residents of the UK's jails would gain a say in picking the nation's MPs. Would prisoners use their votes? 2011-02-10T10:02:30Z There are today many women in California and other States of the union who, being enfranchised, are too indifferent to vote. Anti-Suffrage Essays 2011-03-28T02:00:24.710Z There was also a larger council, to which, as well as to public office generally, only the enfranchised citizens were eligible. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Mozey had enfranchised himself by sacrificing a few tufts of his woolly hair, but the task was not so easy for Tom. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z Coming at a time when the labourers were about to be enfranchised it caused quite a stir in the country. From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography 2011-02-06T03:01:01.497Z That means that it has to introduce legislation to enfranchise convicted criminals before the summer. Many violent inmates may get vote 2011-01-27T20:13:46Z Such is the tendency of the newly enfranchised. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z The XV Amendment to the Constitution could not really enfranchise the Negro slaves. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z 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 During the summer the Franchise Bill, coupled with a Redistribution Bill, was passed, and for the first time in English history the agricultural labourers were enfranchised. From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography 2011-02-06T03:01:01.497Z In 1832, when the town was enfranchised, they were made the returning officers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z After the Irish immigration of the forties, Connecticut in 1855 and Massachusetts in 1857 refused thenceforth to enfranchise those who could not read the Constitution. Races and Immigrants in America At last the army came to be composed entirely," says Finlay, "of the rudest and most ignorant peasants, of enfranchised slaves, and naturalised barbarians. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 If you enfranchise women," he said, "you cannot deprive them of the powers and privileges which accompany it. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Oh! it was a great deliverance for the enfranchised people! Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches All classes of women—widows, unmarried, and married women—were enfranchised. The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey At that time not only had the negro been enfranchised; but nearly a score of Western and Southern states and territories had enfranchised the alien. Races and Immigrants in America The possibility of a forfeiture of their enfranchised position made the burgesses on the whole fairly submissive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" By the time that the working men were enfranchised in 1867, the Parliamentary work of Lord Shaftesbury was being accompanied by a general movement in society. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z The unhappy State had fallen into the hands of double-faced, conscienceless whites, who used the newly enfranchised blacks as tools for their evil purposes. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches The enfranchised women, who had a right to vote in the little town of Caldwell, had supported a mayor who was determined to take measures against gambling. The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey After the newly enfranchised slaves were distributed among the inhabitants of the Valley, monk laborers and colonists, men, women and children went to table. The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter The close corporations, though their right to choose a member of parliament might be doubtful, had the sole right to admit new burgesses, and in order to determine parliamentary elections they enfranchised non-residents. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Another argument, that the natives of India will refuse to submit to government by a race which has enfranchised its women, is a characteristic example of the reaction of Imperialism upon domestic liberty. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z It was now the moment to enfranchise the people, and give that security to private property which Magna Charta had given to personal liberty. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 "My dear child, you have given your life for mine," exclaimed the Empress, throwing her arms around her late enfranchised slave, and bedewing her cheek with her tears. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs Though Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians spent money in ransoming individual slaves and also enfranchised many, no general abolition of slavery was possible. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" In 1832 the exclusive privileges of the corporations in parliamentary elections having been abolished and male occupiers enfranchised, the question of the municipal franchise was next dealt with. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Once enfranchised, the population would be able to protect itself against aggression, and its distress would come automatically to an end. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z While some of the more fortunate villeins crept up into property as well as freedom under the name of copyholders, the greater part enfranchised themselves in a different manner. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 The oppressed slave, in the intervals of toil or torture, caught with joy the emancipating message, and sprang up enfranchised by an immortalizing hope. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs Our association—at least, as I understood it—was to elevate and enfranchise Ireland, not humiliate England. One Of Them It has shown how, without resorting to intimidation, or without the frantic appeal of the demagogue, the working men of England may enfranchise themselves. Freehold Land Societies Their History, Present Position, and Claims Very few members and only a small proportion of the newly enfranchised class had any belief in the equal worth of individuals in the State. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z The newly enfranchised seemed proud of their privilege. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself May this little cross be the symbol of the enfranchising of the old and heroic Gallic race! The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth The serfs were enfranchised in consideration of an annual tax. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) The membership of the Senate was increased to 900, and many new men, including ex-soldiers of Caesar and enfranchised Gauls, were enrolled in it. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. The other measures were comparatively trifling, and the proposal to enfranchise all adult men has less popular enthusiasm behind it than any previous Reform Bill which was introduced by a Government. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Nevertheless, this knowledge by virtue of which you reckon to enfranchise Heaven, has not destroyed religious sentiment on earth. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels If fifty years had seen the rise of 12 free States, was it too much to hope that the next fifty years should enfranchise twelve more. Discussion on American Slavery The comes was appointed by the king and removable at his pleasure, and was chosen originally from all classes, sometimes from enfranchised slaves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Anicetus, an enfranchised slave, now commander of the fleet, could construct a vessel that would fall to pieces at sea at any given moment. Roman Women No poorest in thy borders but may now Lift to the juster skies a man's enfranchised brow. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History For her it was not so much a question of enlightening the angels; the important thing was to enfranchise them. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels In a society in process of formation, the individual, enfranchised, gives the rein to his boldness. The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism The period of vengeance is past; Jove relents, and the captive deity is enfranchised. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers England, the mode of enfranchising villeins is said to have been thus prescribed by a law of William the Conqueror. Dissertation on Slavery With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia Nevertheless, the lord is entitled to escheat in the event of failure of heirs, just as if the land had not been enfranchised. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" It followed, from their perfectly na�ve and innocent faith in Romance, that a woman was not a political equal of man, a strenuous co-educated, enfranchised voter, but a possession. Captain Macedoine's Daughter The commoners on a manorial common then will be, prima facie, the freeholders and copyholders of the manor, and the persons who own lands which were copyhold of the manor but have been enfranchised. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" It is easy to say that I might have pleaded other plans and gone on my way enfranchised. The Portal of Dreams Cleisthenes may have enfranchised aliens and slaves, but it seems certain that he must have dealt with these free Athenians who had lost their rights. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" The cost fell on the tenant, and the land when enfranchised was subject to the encumbrances attaching to the manor, and so an investigation into the lord’s title was necessary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" At the time of writing, women are full of anticipation of being speedily enfranchised, and there is a good deal of talk about what use they will make of the vote. Modern marriage and how to bear it In the present day large numbers of copyhold tenements have been enfranchised, i.e. converted into freehold. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" It not only enfranchised four millions of American slaves of African descent, but made slavery forever impossible in the great Republic, and gave a new impulse to the cause of human freedom. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War Place this statement in juxtaposition with a few of the things that were really done by these newly enfranchised people who were practicing their first lessons in the science of government. The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 Every mortgage of copyhold estate in the land enfranchised becomes a mortgage of the freehold, though subject to the priority of the rent charge paid in compensation under the act. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" 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 effect of this step is to sever all connexion between the land enfranchised and the manor of which it was previously held. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" At the end of five years of apprenticeship, or of fifteen at farthest, full wages could be paid to the enfranchised negro race, to the double advantage of both master and man. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War In labouring to transfer power from the class which the Revolution had enfranchised to those which it had overthrown, Polignac and La Bourdonnaie would gladly have made terms with the working men. The History of Freedom 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 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 But it is different in Norfolk; 4000 enfranchised slaves marched in procession through the town the other day in a sort of frantic jubilee. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital We do not want the negroes enfranchised till they are better educated. Porto Rico Its History, Products and Possibilities... A figment, too, which his enfranchised intellect discarded. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) In South Carolina, therefore, the President will be compelled to create voters; and, if he shall enfranchise any of the white non-voters, can he not also enfranchise the loyal black non-voters? 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 This is the spirit of the ranks, this the bearing in death, this the faith in England's ideal of the enfranchised masses. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe Some day the past would confront and denounce her, perhaps; but for the moment she was enfranchised anew of human society. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Symbols of America’s newly won freedom, they were objects of almost superstitious veneration to the agitators for an enfranchised France. Orphans of the Storm In 1776, the Quakers refused fellowship with such as held slaves; that sect, through all the States, enfranchised their slaves, who, on such enfranchisement, became citizens. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 Thus it is clear that the blindness and inability to find rightful authority, civil or military, first to emancipate, then to arm, and now to enfranchise the negroes, have the one source. 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 removes the disabilities of religion; enfranchises the millions, that they by being free may bring freedom to others. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe It seemed the quintessence of human experience, the ecstasy of perfect and enfranchising sorrow, distilled from the shackling, smirching half-sorrows of actual life. Tante It did not even occur to him that he would make an attempt to enfranchise himself from Marion's charms. Marion Fay When divine Love has enfranchised the soul, what power can fetter it? Letters of Madam Guyon Is it not a little remarkable that no matter who the class may be that it is proposed to enfranchise, the objections are always the same? 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 hazard of enfranchising the millions, of extending the word People to include every man of British blood, was a great, a breathless hazard. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe The society was affiliated with the National Anti-Suffrage Association and was organized for the purpose of fighting the movement to enfranchise women by both Federal and State amendments. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI She told of how the Canadian Government gave the suffrage to women and how they voted for conscription; of the splendid courage of the men of Australia and New Zealand, born of enfranchised mothers. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V In not one of the four largest parties were the delegates in convention given so much as an opportunity to discuss and vote on a resolution to enfranchise women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV In its turn this new party enfranchised another 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 But now, with heart bowed down with grief and woe, he walks heavily, and even as a man who mourneth for his mother, over the enfranchised unfamiliar turf. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule After women had been enfranchised the State and the Boston suffrage associations conducted citizenship schools in every county to instruct them in their new duties. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Her address, The Nation Calls, was a strong appeal for an organization of Women Voters to be formed in the States where they were enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V In 1891 a bill was presented to enfranchise women by statute. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The law of supply and demand regulates free and enfranchised labor, but disfranchisement estops its operation. 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 at last enfranchised lawyer dropped his barbarous pen, closed his law-books, and in the winter or spring of 1825 removed with his household to New York. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Antedating the beginning of this effort by thirty years was the attempt to enfranchise women through the amendment of State constitutions. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Throughout the week the meetings of the National Association alternated with the conferences for organizing the enfranchised women and the name officially decided on was League of Women Voters. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V But when women are enfranchised their interest in the State will deepen. 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 Upon what state of existence David White entered when eternity closed its everlasting portals, and the enfranchised spirit went up to the Eternal Judge, it is not for me to say. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 The neighboring State of Kansas fully enfranchised its women in 1912, as did several other western States, and favorable pressure was growing very strong. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Therefore the Governors of the fully enfranchised States were wired as soon as the Federal Amendment passed. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V It is said that if women are enfranchised, husbands and wives will vote just alike, and you will simply double the vote and have no change in the result. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The morning of July 7, at the suffrage rooms, I heard strong protests against the way Mr. Mason disclaimed all intention of enfranchising married 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 "Death alone can enfranchise them from their servitude," has said Para-Brahma. The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery It lies in the power of this party to speak the word that will fully enfranchise the women of this country and where there is power there is responsibility. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI From the office of The Revolution in New York in the autumn of 1868 went out thousands of petitions to be signed and sent to Congress for the submission of an amendment to enfranchise women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Let it be noted that many of them have voted regularly ever since they were enfranchised, though some have reconsidered and returned to their silent influence. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The Senate committee again submitted a majority report in favor of a Sixteenth Amendment enfranchising women, signed by T. W. Palmer, Blair, Lapham and Anthony. 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 life that had been risked for the larger cause, she vaguely felt as enfranchised from the limitations of the smaller. Ghetto Comedies In every State as soon as women were enfranchised there was improvement in laws relating to their welfare and that of children. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Mrs. Park spoke briefly of the hearing before the House Committee on Woman Suffrage April 29 on the bill granting to the Legislature of Hawaii the power to enfranchise its women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V At this same election an amendment was submitted as to whether male Indians should be enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Of course Mrs. Stanton stands for suffrage first, last and all the time, and the conservative women who join in this celebration do so knowing that she stands thus for a free and enfranchised womanhood. 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 also met Judges Howe and Kingman and Governor Campbell, and heard from them of the wonderful changes wrought in the court-room and at the polls by the presence of enfranchised women. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III In the second Legislature of the new State, the first after women were enfranchised, Mrs. Frances W. Munds of Prescott served as Senator and Mrs. Rachel Berry of St. Johns as Representative. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Then followed under the head of different years, beginning with 1893, that in which women were enfranchised, a roster of Colorado's unequalled laws. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V A minority report was offered, directing the Legislature at its first session to submit an amendment to the voters to enfranchise women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Miss Anthony was introduced with words of praise by Representative Packard, and spoke for an hour, making her usual strong plea for a Sixteenth Amendment enfranchising 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 One of these was the question whether women were to be enfranchised, the other whether the enfranchisement should be effected by a clause introduced in committee on the present bill. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III At the beginning of the second decade the State had given them the complete suffrage and at its close the women of the entire nation were enfranchised by an amendment to the Federal Constitution. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Working women can not hope to hold their own in industrial matters where their interests may clash with those of their enfranchised fellow workers or employers. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Every argument which enfranchises a man, enfranchises a woman. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV No, they can not persuade me that it would be a right or even a politic thing to ask that only educated, tax-paying women be 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 It did not seem unreasonable to believe that the number of persons in the three kingdoms to be enfranchised by the amendment would be little short of half a million. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The victory in the State of Washington in 1910 and the manner in which the enfranchised women used their newly acquired power contributed much to the success in California. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI We are in constant receipt of letters from all over the world written in various languages, the majority containing inquiries regarding suffrage methods in this country and what has been accomplished by our enfranchised women.... The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V To still further advance the matter we determined to address a letter to each member of the House and Senate, asking his opinion on the proposed amendment to enfranchise women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV It is not that all when enfranchised will be capable, honest and chaste, but it is that they will possess the power to control their own conditions and those of society equally with men. 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 Mr. Cowan, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, offered an amendment to strike out the word "male" also, and thus enfranchise the women of the District. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III A prosperous business man and public-spirited citizen, when the call came to assist the movement to enfranchise the women of the State he saw the necessity of interesting men of prominence. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Women are not fools; on the contrary, they are very intelligent people and sure to be enfranchised before long. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V We ask you to insist that the pledges of the republic shall be redeemed, that its promises shall be fulfilled, and that American womanhood shall be enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Last of all comes the objection that the old masters will influence the vote of the negroes, and that, therefore, to enfranchise them will but give increased power to the old lords of the lash. 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 Though the total area of the island is so small and though only those women who were absolutely owners of property were enfranchised, they numbered about 700. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III From the time they were enfranchised by the State constitution they have received the recognition of the parties. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Mr. Bailey appeared not to know that women had been serving on juries for from twenty to forty years in the western States where they were enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V In all history no class has been enfranchised without some selfish motive underlying. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Mr. Vest concluded with a blood-curdling picture of the French Revolution which would be repeated in this country if women were 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 Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Bright felt that as married women were the greatest sufferers under the law, they should be the first rather than the last to be enfranchised. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The area of Canadian territory in which women were now enfranchised extended from Ontario to the Pacific Ocean. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Before the work for a 16th Amendment was fairly organized a number of members of Congress and constitutional lawyers took the ground that women were already enfranchised by the first clause of the 14th Amendment. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V If the same proportion existed in other States nothing could prevent the success of the movement to enfranchise women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Senator Dolph, of Oregon, followed in a clear, concise argument, brushing away these sophistries by showing that such evils did not exist where women were enfranchised and voted at every election. 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 realize that woman must be educated to this new privilege, just as man has been educated to it, and just as this nation is now educating millions of the newly enfranchised to it. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III He said that each Province must enfranchise its women before the Federal Government could act and no Province had done so at this time. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI They had seen an entire class enfranchised through the quicker and easier way of amending the Federal Constitution and they determined to invoke this power in their own behalf. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V A petition to Congress for the submission of a constitutional amendment enfranchising women was circulated among our various unions, and within two months it received nearly 300,000 signatures and indorsements. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV At the opening session, on Miss Anthony's birthday, she was presented by the enfranchised women of Wyoming and Colorado with a beautiful silk flag which bore two shining stars on its blue field. 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 decline either by word or deed to make the admission that these women are less capable citizens than the 2,000,000 whom the right honorable gentleman proposes to enfranchise by this bill. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III At the present time South Africa has the distinction of being the only English-speaking nation that has not enfranchised its women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI When a memorial was lately proposed for a woman who had died in the war, a well-known man said: 'We can enfranchise her sex in tribute to the valor which she proved that it possessed.' The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V The lack of the ballot places the wage-earning woman upon a level of irresponsibility compared with her enfranchised fellow workingman. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Well may these newly enfranchised women do her reverence. 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 On the other hand the man who sees men enfranchised whom he deems unworthy to use the ballot, thinks it a disgrace to withhold it from intelligent women. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Following the act of the Legislature twenty months were left to carry on the campaign destined to enfranchise the 175,000 women of the State. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI By the organization of enfranchised women, who, through direct political activity in their own States and within their own political parties may become efficient factors in national conventions and in Congress. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V We must show that when enfranchised we shall hold a self-preservative attitude; that we know our rights, and, knowing them, dare maintain. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Here again one could not discern an indication of the dreadful loss of respect which was to be the portion of enfranchised 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 incidents related occurred several years before the passage of the act specifically enfranchising women. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The Act passed by large majorities, members voting for it who had persistently voted against the Federal Amendment to enfranchise the women of the United States. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI In other words, every State where the women are not at present enfranchised may be a campaign State every year. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V We ask that this symbolism shall assume reality, for a redeemed and enfranchised womanhood will be the best safeguard of justice. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Mrs. Johns made Republican speeches; Miss Anthony described the record of the party on human freedom and urged them to complete that roll of honor by enfranchising 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 voting of the newly enfranchised negroes at the May election, 1867, brought out in strong color the beauties of masculine legislation, and immediately after there was a movement among the friends of woman's enfranchisement. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III As the Constitution of the United States is not in force in the Philippines the women were not enfranchised by the Federal Suffrage Amendment in 1920 but must await the action of their own Legislature. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI She urged the committee to submit the amendment and spare women the further drudgery of State campaigns and assured them that the women would not stop until the last one was enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V But even if it be true that no nation ever enfranchised woman—even so until within one hundred years universal or even general suffrage was unknown among men. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Had they represented an enfranchised class, the whole committee would have been at their feet. 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 In these clauses, as in the enfranchising clauses, and throughout the act, words importing the masculine gender were alone used. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III As Porto Rico is an unincorporated Territory of the United States, its women were not enfranchised by the Federal Suffrage Amendment in 1920. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI First of all it shifts the responsibility of actually enfranchising the women from the Senators and Representatives to the people of their respective States. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V I will ask the American question "will it pay" to enfranchise the women of this nation—I will not say republic? The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The negro and the Indian have been enfranchised; women alone remain under political disabilities. 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 speech was against Senator Wilson's bill to enfranchise the women of the territories. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The first resolution proposing an amendment to the State constitution enfranchising women was introduced in the House by Hill Montague of Richmond and the hearing granted by the committee created statewide interest. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Gentlemen, the dearest wish of our hearts would be fulfilled if you would enfranchise the women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V But learned lawyers, Judges and Congressmen took the ground that women were already enfranchised by the Fourteenth Amendment. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV "Socialism means enfranchising them, giving them the vote, so that they can lift their voice alongside with men's voice and fight with the same weapon for a better, happier life." British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals There was, therefore, reason to expect that the enfranchising clauses would bear the same interpretation, inasmuch as they were confessedly offered as an equivalent for the increased liabilities. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III More than half a million women were thus far enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI The difference between the two is that after the latter amendment has passed three-fourths of the State Legislatures it completely enfranchises the women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V In other words she transmitted a Federal Citizenship including the right to vote which she did not herself possess, thus enfranchising a child born while she was an alien. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV It assumes that the individuals whom it would enfranchise can enter into the common life and contribute to the formation of a common decision by a genuine interest in public transactions. Liberalism They claimed that if "spinsters and widows" were enfranchised they would be an added power to secure to married women their rights. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Some members who voted "no" did so because they believed that the whole constitution would be defeated at the polls if it proposed to enfranchise women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI She spoke of her personal study of the question in Finland and the Scandinavian countries where women are enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Reasoning from these facts, if sobriety, virtue and intelligence were necessary qualifications, women enfranchised would largely reflect these elements in the Government. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV By the marriage settlement, the former were limited, in default of issue of the marriage, to the representatives of Mrs. Washington at her death; so that her negroes could not be enfranchised. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans One act of the legislature thus enfranchised fifty thousand persons. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The attitude of the Legislature this year was in marked contrast to that of previous sessions and those who feared that women would lose influence by being enfranchised were certainly undeceived. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Our wish is that we may have a national constitutional amendment, enfranchising the women citizens and preventing the States from depriving them of representation in the Government. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V There would be taken the first direct vote in that body on a Sixteenth Amendment to enfranchise women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV General Bolivar enfranchised his own slaves to the amount of between seven and eight hundred, and many proprietors followed his example. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans If women are enfranchised, the right conferred becomes an obligation as imperious to them as to men; on those opposed as on those who favor the act. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III As all women were fully enfranchised by the Federal Amendment a State branch of the National League of Women Voters was formed with Mrs. Gerald Cassidy as chairman. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI In Chapter XX will be found the full history of this amendment by which all women were enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V I desire also to inform my friend from Georgia that since women were enfranchised in Washington Territory nature has continued in her wonted course. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV If their complaints were well founded, they were either enfranchised, or delivered to more merciful hands. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans If we calculate that one house in every six in the boroughs is occupied by a woman, we find that 349,746 is the probable number to be enfranchised there. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Even before the war was ended an enormous work was begun throughout the State, under Mrs. Laidlaw, toward the political training of the more than a million women who had been enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Although at the last the women of Central Europe were enfranchised as the result of war it was not of their making and their part in it was not on the battlefield. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V We are not asking Congress to enfranchise us, because it does not possess that power. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV A half-dozen newly enfranchised women occupied front seats. Anderson Crow, Detective Our Dakota historian says: The territorial legislature, in the year 1872, came within one vote of enfranchising women. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The historic Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association was disbanded and the League of Women Citizens was organized, to become the League of Women Voters when the women of Pennsylvania were enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI I know," he said in conclusion, "that if the women of Chicago and Illinois were enfranchised the corruption of the city council and the Legislature would be much less than it is. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Of the two it would be better to disfranchise the soldiers and enfranchise the mothers. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV But with the Negro freed and enfranchised, and the Northern politician on the premises, the vote of the poor white became indispensible to the former Southern ruler who wished to hold his own politically. Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Since the fourteenth amendment had enfranchised woman as well as the black man, she had the necessary qualifications of an elector. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Its object was to meet a general demand of the newly enfranchised women for information about the wise use of the ballot. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI This has been a year of victory in that more women have been enfranchised than in any preceding year. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V By enfranchising the women of this country, you enfranchise humanity. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV They could not have intended to enfranchise men, whom they declared to be obstacles in the way of public prosperity, and as dangerous to the virtues of the people. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject No demonstration followed the appearance of the ladies, the men remaining quiet, and contenting themselves with comments sotto voce on this last political development, and with speculations as to how the newly enfranchised would vote. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Before the constitution went to the voters the Federal Amendment was proclaimed and women were fully enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI It was quite as much for the industrial opportunity as for maintaining personal liberty that Lincoln insisted on the necessity of enfranchising the negroes. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V While the writing of this volume has been in progress the Parliament of Australia by a single Act has fully enfranchised the 800,000 women of that commonwealth. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Had this been their design, they must have enfranchised both Indians and Africans, as both were within the territory over which they exercised jurisdiction. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject If this were true, it would not follow that they should not be enfranchised, and left free to determine the matter for themselves. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III It was impossible to persuade the Governor to call a special session at any time afterwards, but in 1920 Florida women were enfranchised by this amendment. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI From 1896 for fourteen years not one State enfranchised its women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V All of these conditions must lead eventually to the enfranchising of the only remaining part of the citizenship without this means of protection and development. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Another said: "Yesterday, Alexander could enfranchise thousands; to-day, he cannot free himself from the bonds of death." Mediaeval Tales When the point was made on this bill, I for the first time closely examined the constitution, and finding there was nought to prevent the legislature enfranchising anyone, promptly apprised the committee of the discovery. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III They realized that they would soon be enfranchised by a Federal Amendment, the only hope of the women of Georgia. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Above them all hung the "suffrage flag" with four golden stars on its blue ground for the four States where women were fully enfranchised—Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V They then instituted a new movement demanding "one man, one vote," and the Government, which is Catholic, said: "If you compel this we will enfranchise women," believing that this would strengthen its power. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Every enfranchised male slave had the ballot secured him under United States law—a law which annulled all State provisions against color. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Will this fact lessen the alarm of some men for the safety of the babies of enfranchised women on election day? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Women in Georgia, however, were not permitted to vote at the Presidential election two months after they had been enfranchised by this amendment. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI The third great cause is the inertia in the growth of democracy which has come as a reaction following the aggressive movements that with possibly ill-advised haste enfranchised the foreigner, the negro and the Indian. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V In 1869 he presented a resolution asking Congress for a Sixteenth Amendment to enfranchise women, which received the votes of eight of the twenty-two senators. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Amendment and the proposition to enfranchise the women of the District of Columbia. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II It seems to your committee that to enfranchise woman—or rather to cease to deprive her of the ballot, which is of right hers, would be reciprocally beneficial. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The next year the women were fully enfranchised by the Federal Amendment. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Because of this we find ourselves distanced by monarchies and the women enfranchised in other lands are coming to us to express their pity and sympathy.... The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V All of these noble efforts resulted in no action whatever to enfranchise women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV As Congress has absolute control over the District, no one can dispute its right to enfranchise the women here, even though they dispute its control of this matter in other parts of the nation. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Your pledge to enfranchise ten millions of women will rouse an enthusiasm which must count in the coming closely contested election. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III By 1915 the more thoughtful men of the Territory were beginning to feel that its women must be enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI In Volume VI the attempt to obtain the vote through State action is described in 48 chapters and their reading is recommended to those who insisted that this was the way women should be enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V And thus the women of Idaho were enfranchised! The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV If all the women, to say nothing of the Republicans and Abolitionists who claimed to believe in the truth of the idea, had stood firm, woman would have been enfranchised with the negro. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Thomas Wentworth Higginson wrote: I believe that we fail to establish a truly republican government, or to test the principle of universal suffrage, so long as we enfranchise one sex only. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The Bill on each of these occasions was of a very limited character; it proposed to enfranchise women-householders, widows and spinsters and would only have added about a million women to the Parliamentary register. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI They must be better than other men or they would not have enfranchised their women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Legislative Action and Laws: In 1891, at the request of the State E. S. A., a joint resolution was presented to the Legislature for an amendment to the constitution enfranchising women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV How much better and easier it would have been for Congress, when they enfranchised all the men of the District of Columbia, had they included the women also; but better late than never. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Had it done so, one may reasonably believe that the women of Indiana would before to-day have been enfranchised. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The debate lasted three days and on Clause IV, which enfranchised women, Lord Selborne made an extraordinarily powerful and eloquent speech in its favour. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Public sentiment throughout the State seemed to indicate that it was now ready to enfranchise women and officials from the Governor down believed an amendment could be carried. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V On February 10 the committee gave a hearing to the petitioners for the submission of an amendment to enfranchise women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The crowning act of 1869, and the one which gave an omen for the year that was approaching, was the enfranchising of the women of Wyoming and Utah. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II On December 8, 1868, he submitted an amendment to the constitution, guaranteeing suffrage to all United States citizens, which, as the negro had not then been enfranchised, he numbered article fifteen. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III A petition was sent to the Government of India Committee by the Women Citizen's Union of the British Dominions, where in all but South Africa women were now fully enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI The convention was largely in the nature of a Colorado jubilee, as its women ten years before had cast their first vote, having been enfranchised in the autumn of 1893. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Petitions were in circulation asking the Legislature to amend the constitution of the State so as to enfranchise women, and others that women be excused from paying taxes until they had representation. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV To enfranchise the women of Utah as the one safe, sure and swift means to abolish polygamy in that Territory. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Resolutions were discussed and adopted, declaring that women were enfranchised under the fourteenth amendment. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III At the writing of the present volume in 1920 there are comparatively few countries in the world having a constitutional form of government where women are not enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Why debar the better and enfranchise the worse? The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Had Kansas men voted their convictions, Kansas women would long since have been enfranchised, but political partisanship has been stronger than the sense of justice. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The auction-block was here first banished, slavery was here first abolished, the newly-made freemen were here first enfranchised; and we now ask that the women shall here be first admitted to the ballot. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II She wanted congress to pass a sixteenth amendment, declaring all its citizens enfranchised, or a declaratory act setting forth that the constitution already guaranteed to them that right. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III It had to wait until another took the office and finally was signed June 19, 1915, two weeks after the women of Denmark were fully enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman, president of the New York association, called for a Federal Amendment to enfranchise women because of the principles on which this Government was founded. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Miss Anthony, however, simply called attention to the record of the Republican party in the cause of human freedom, and urged them to complete it by enfranchising women, but did not take up political issues. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV This is certainly a most flattering presentment of the results of enfranchising the sex in Wyoming, and what is better, it seems substantially a just one. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II You admitted that the colored man was not really free until he held the ballot in his hand, and therefore you enfranchised him and left the woman twice his slave. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III It was decided to arrange at the next congress a session at which only enfranchised women should speak.... The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI An important feature of this, as of several preceding conferences, was the reports of what women had been able to accomplish in the many States where they were now enfranchised. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V The lawmakers seem to be afraid of enfranchising women because of the deteriorating effect which politics might have on womankind. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Elizabeth Cady Stanton made the argument in favor of enfranchising women of the District of Columbia. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Our memorial asks that in forming a new government they may be alike enfranchised. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III On Wednesday at the great meeting in the Hall of the Reformation, three-minute speeches were given by representatives of each of the enfranchised countries in the Alliance. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI In 1918 Michigan, South Dakota and Oklahoma fully enfranchised them, increasing the number of equal suffrage States to fifteen. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V The Mother Colony seems likely to be the next to enfranchise women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV And it may be said that the disfranchised "have no rights that the enfranchised are bound to respect." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Many able lawyers and judges gave it as their opinion that women as well as Africans were enfranchised by the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendments. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III "Our men and women struggled together for our national freedom," said delegate after delegate from the new States of Europe, "and so when any of us were enfranchised we both were." The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI The men of eleven States and Alaska have already fully enfranchised their women and Illinois has granted a large degree of suffrage, including the Presidential vote. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V The Organic Act of the Territory said that at the first Territorial election persons with certain qualifications should vote, and at subsequent elections such persons as the Territorial Legislature might enfranchise. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Some object that it was not the "intention" of the framers of the original Constitution, nor of the amendments, to enfranchise woman. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The National Association is trying the constitutional method, which has emancipated and enfranchised the African and secured to that race all their civil rights. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The first Provincial Legislature to enfranchise women was that of Manitoba, Jan 27, 1916. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI All the women of the United States were fully enfranchised and the association had no longer any reason for being. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V To Catharine, Russia is indebted for the first proposition to enfranchise the serfs, but meeting strong opposition she was obliged to relinquish this idea, which was carried to fruition by her great-grandson, Alexander. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Miss Lillie Devereux Blake made a strong appeal on the duty of enfranchising the women of the Nation before celebrating the coming Centennial. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Those who survived three years were released from this service, and sometimes one who had given great satisfaction was enfranchised on the spot. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life |
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