enfranchisement

Thus redistribution without enfranchisement is not a credible alternative and does little to alleviate the threat of revolution.

Shimer on Acemoglu, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

It is scarcely too much to say that to her mind this question was second in importance to none, and though the word enfranchisement, as applied to woman, had not yet been uttered, the whole theory of it was in Sarah's heart, and she eagerly awaited the proper time and place to develop it.

The Grimke Sisters Birney, Catherine H. 1885

Christians; for such enfranchisement is doubtless a benefit so far as it may be compatible with truth and piety.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

As I see it, real enfranchisement is an opportunity to participate in the selection of the nation’s political leaders in a way that has at least some chance of affecting the result, not merely having your votes “counted.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Could National Juries Alleviate the Problem of Political Ignorance?  2010

Their exactions at last became unendurable, and a long struggle broke out between them and the burghers, which resulted in what is known as the enfranchisement of the towns.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

A common and altogether natural error into which the negroes soon fell after their enfranchisement was the belief that the Republican party of the North was securely lodged in governmental control, and that it was unreservedly committed to the maintenance of their political rights against their late

The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion 1901

Moreover, as woman is the most important factor in the marriage relation, her enfranchisement is the primal step in deciding the basis of family life.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

The melancholy absurdity of giving these people votes, at any rate at present, would glare at one out of every roll of their eyes, chuckle in their mouths, and bump in their heads, if one did not see (as one cannot help seeing in the country) that their enfranchisement is a mere party trick to get votes.

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

The DNC has to determine how to approportion the delegates for the national convention from 2 states that violated the primary process independent of voters 'enfranchisement'.

Obama Campaign Calls For 50-50 Split Of Michigan Delegates 2009

Such chivalry, it would seem, is an insult to the power and intelligence of the women of Utah, who celebrated their "enfranchisement" by a convention to favor the free coinage of silver, 16 to 1, and whose behavior on that occasion was, to say the least, boyish.

Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates Helen Kendrick Johnson 1880