Sentence examples for enfranchised in from inspiring English sources

During World War I, she declared a suffrage truce and helped to lead the war effort in England; in 1928 women became enfranchised in that country.

While all Indigenous Australians were granted the right to vote federally in 1962, they were not enfranchised in Western Australia until the same year.

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.

Do not underestimate the deep roots of human rights in European culture, even if the phrase itself is fairly recent.TONY HONORÉOxfordSIR Your table states that Australian aboriginals were enfranchised in 1967.

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.

It was not until 1892 that voters in all states of the American union were able to cast their "Australian ballot" for president.Voters in Massachusetts were the first in the United States to be enfranchised in this way in 1888, but Kansan voters were not given this opportunity to exercise discretion until three years later.

Although full citizenship tended to be restricted in the Greek city-states (with women, slaves, foreigners, and some others excluded), the citizens were more deeply enfranchised than in modern representative democracies because they were more directly involved in governing.

A vocal feminist, she pushed hard for the laws that enfranchised women in Turkey long before France or Switzerland.

A Republican-led Congress ended slavery in the capital in 1862, and enfranchised black male residents in 1867.

On the other hand, a much higher share of France's 5m Muslim residents is enfranchised; and yet in some French town halls, the politics of mosque-building are explosive.

For example, Rock (1987) writes that "only a small fraction of the nominally enfranchised population voted in elections, which local bosses regulated by manipulating the electoral roles or by simple bribery and intimidation".