The Reform Bill of 1867, which had enfranchised the British working class, had opened vast opportunities for political action by the trade unions.
Iraq's politics are more vibrant than the institutions meant to gird them, threatening the support of the people they have enfranchised and a nascent, if flawed democratic experiment that has yet to take root.
Mr. Bloomberg had pushed the proposal on the grounds that it would have enfranchised the 1.3 million New York City voters who are not enrolled in the Democratic Party, and who therefore do not get to vote in the Democratic primaries that so often prove decisive in local races.
Most notably, it blocked a revote in Michigan, which would've enfranchised millions of voters.
But as many women pointed out, any democracy worthy of the name would have enfranchised the female majority of the population and secured their independent property rights.
The short answer is: the market, a booming global economy, combined with the internet, in which every semi-articulate voice has become enfranchised into the kind of creative marketplace that would have Greene spinning in his grave.
Unlike firms in most other industries, Google has to enfranchise its employees: if they feel stymied, they will simply take their creativity and ambition elsewhere.Though it is not discussed in the book, Google's management philosophy doubtless springs from the careers of the founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Woodhull spent Election Day in prison, on trumped-up charges, and after Susan B. Anthony went to the polls to cast a ballot — on the theory that women had been enfranchised by the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Amendments — she was arrested.
"Trying too hard" might be one way of putting it: a sense that the artist hadn't sufficiently enfranchised his or herself from an urge to display mere skill.
And, when that failed, Anthony went to the polls and in 1872 tried to vote, insisting that the privileges-and-immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment had, in fact, enfranchised women.
