123 examples of enfranchise in sentences

A Conciliation Committee was formed of sixty members from all parties, who prepared a bill that would enfranchise only women householders, those who already had possessed the municipal franchise since 1869.

A careful canvass has shown that in the different parts of the United Kingdom from 80 to 90 per cent, of those whom it would enfranchise are wage- or salary-earning women, and not one Labor member of Parliament voted against it.

I voted against the so-called Conciliation Bill which proposed to give the vote to every woman of property if she chose to take the trouble to get it, and at the same time enfranchise only about one-tenth or one-fifteenth of the working women of the country.

Thanks to their metropolises, our colonies were able first to keep, and afterwards to enfranchise their slaves, without succumbing to the task.

And the sale of everything she possessed presented itself to her fancy as a transaction which would enfranchise her from the past.

make free of; give the freedom of, give the franchise; enfranchise, affranchise^. laisser faire [Fr.], laisser aller

V. liberate, free; set free, set clear, set at liberty; render free, emancipate, release; enfranchise, affranchise^; manumit; enlarge; disband, discharge, disenthrall, disenthral, dismiss; let go, let loose, loose, let out, let slip; cast adrift, turn adrift; deliver &c 672; absolve &c (acquit)

grant, empower, charter, enfranchise, privilege, confer a privilege, license, authorize, warrant; sanction; intrust &c (commission) 755. give carte blanche

In short, the rich Italians would feel the need of the franchise as strongly as the old plebeians had felt it, and all the more strongly because the Romans had not only ceased to enfranchise whole communities, but were chary of giving the citizenship even to individuals.

Struggles to enfranchise the Classes subjected to Dues.

Struggles to Enfranchise the Classes subjected to Dues.

He had gone so far as to say that the wit of man could not have devised a better representative system than that which Lord John Russell, in the previous session, had attempted to alter by proposing to enfranchise Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham.

While I would not have you take this right or privilege from those men whom we invite to our shores, I do ask you, in the face of this immense foreign immigration, to enfranchise the tax-paying, intelligent, moral, native-born women of America.

The Republican party was trembling in the balance, because it feared that it could not hold its position, until it should have secured by legislation to the Government what it had gained at the point of the sword, and when the nation declared its purpose to enfranchise the negro it was a political necessity.

It is a misfortune to him who amasses it; for it is a voluntary continuance in the harness of a beast of burden, when the soul should enfranchise and lift itself up into a higher region of pursuits and pleasures.

The laws greatly obstruct the manumission of slaves, even where the master is willing to enfranchise them.

The laws greatly obstruct the manumission of slaves, even where the master is willing to enfranchise them.

The laws greatly obstruct the manumission of slaves, even where the master is willing to enfranchise them.

The laws greatly obstruct the manumission of slaves, even where the master is willing to enfranchise them.

It was now the moment to enfranchise the people and give that security to private property which Magna Charta had given to personal liberty."

He was an intolerant indifferentist; ready to enfranchise the Papists, but more ready to massacre them.

Having spent the winter of 1882-83 in Washington, trying to press to a vote the bill for a Sixteenth Amendment before Congress, and the autumn in a vigorous campaign through Nebraska, where a constitutional amendment to enfranchise women had been submitted to the people, she felt the imperative need of an entire change in the current of her thoughts.

"That will never do," said another, "it would enfranchise wenches."

As Mr. Bingham's great speech was on the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, every principle he laid down literally enfranchised the women of the nation.

" "Would you enfranchise the women?" asked the countess.

123 examples of  enfranchise  in sentences