Enfranchise

Enfranchise:

  to grant the power of voting to, esp as a right of citizenship

Sample Sentences: 

• His strategy was to create public jobs for the unemployed, enfranchise labor and expand the minimum wage.
• As evidence of change, the following recently developed programs are designed to enfranchise low-income populations:.
• The effort could enfranchise millions of people who have lived in this country for years without seeking citizenship.

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Old School Use of Enfranchisement

Enfranchisement and Representation: Italy 

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     Some people nowadays say that Enfranchisement is the new "free".  Slavery is still a problem in our world, however the majority of the earth's population is free.  Even though these people may be free does that mean they automatically have the right of citizenship?  For the US if you are born here in America you are a US Citizen, while in other places this is not true.  You still have to go through all the legal trouble of becoming enfranchised (and voting as well, which comes along with citizenship).  Even semi recently some middle eastern countries would not allow women to vote even though they had citizenship, this was changed how ever and are able to have that right of enfranchisement.

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