Both Southern and Northern Republicans also wanted to continue to deny the vote temporarily to Southerners disfranchised for support of the Confederacy, and they were concerned that a sweeping endorsement of suffrage would enfranchise this group.
For instance, Mr. Paz Soldán said that the Constitution recognized 36 different indigenous groups in Bolivia, some with fewer than 100 people, but that it was unclear how precisely each group would be enfranchised in a country where three main indigenous groups — the Quechua, Aymara and Guaraní — wield much larger influence.
Our elected officials have an obligation to find ways to support, educate, and see to the flourishing all of the people in their state, even though gerrymandering has left some groups less visible and less enfranchised.
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.
Those groups in society that have been most recently enfranchised also tend to vote at lower rates.
In 1907, in the course of a public debate with Teresa Billington-Greig of the Women's Freedom League (a breakaway group from the WSPU), Bondfield argued that the only way forward was a bill that enfranchised all men and all women, without qualification.
The unintended irony of American history is that every group that comes to the equality of collective freedom for the first time, whether emancipated slaves or enfranchised women or newly arrived immigrants, has reinstructed the rest of us in its value.
(Reith importantly invoked women, newly enfranchised).
That fully enfranchised constituency is up for grabs in November.
Before African-Americans were disenfranchised, they were enfranchised by the Fifteenth Amendment.
