“enfranchisement” is a perfectly valid and usable word in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the act of granting privileges (such as the right to vote) or the state of being granted such privileges. For example, you could say “The enfranchisement of women was a key milestone in the struggle for gender equality.”.
I'm talking about the most significant programme of empowerment by a British government since the great enfranchisement of the 19th century".
And because I've lived in a place where enfranchisement has only recently been universal.
The Democrats have been keen on the enfranchisement of immigrants; and the trade unions, which used to oppose immigration as a source of cheap competition to their members, are now hunting hard for Latino members.In fact, the immigrants themselves are not all that much of a problem for the RepublicansIn fact, the immigrants themselves are not all that much of a problem for the Republicans.
Second, the enfranchisement of women in 1971, while doubling the number of voters, noticeably reduced turnout.
The troubled face of Russian business ReprintsPrompted by the thought that shareholder participation might encourage a greater sense of responsibility among owners and accountability among directors, the SEC has proposed a limited form of enfranchisement.
Yet the rise of Shia power in Iraq may start to encourage demands for greater enfranchisement.
It has grudgingly proposed various options for partial enfranchisement based on sentence length, which it hopes will be enough to satisfy the European Court.
Ten states passed 13 bills designed to increase enfranchisement last year.
From that moment on the talks started, culminating eventually in the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty.Zalman Shoval Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Tel AvivRelative discomfort* SIR – In a letter opposing the enfranchisement of prisoners, a reader said he "would not want any convicted felon voting in any election that could determine [his] state's future" (November 14th).
Its main argument is that, as a share of the voting population, the required number of signatures has dropped from 10% back in 1848 to 2.2% today, thanks to the enfranchisement of women at federal level, which took place only in 1971, and a swelling population.
Where enfranchisement occurred, the lord usually received a good payment; even when servility persisted, there was a tendency to commute the arbitrary tallage into fixed common sums.
