Sentence examples for republican franchise from inspiring English sources

He believed that voters would reward him for his credentials on national defense, which had been a Republican franchise over the preceding decade, and that he could pincer any opponent on social issues like welfare and crime.

New Jersey is, they say, one of many increasingly suburban states where the Republican franchise is weakening, a trend in the Northeast, the West Coast and parts of the Midwest, including Illinois, largely because of Chicago's ever-expanding suburbs.

The members of this year's truncated electorate were also whiter, markedly older, and more habitually Republican: if the franchise had been limited to them two years ago, last week's exit polls suggest, John McCain would be President today.

The law balances Democrats' desire to expand the voting franchise with Republicans' determination to prevent fraud at the polls.

With one day left in the campaign, a basic difference between the two parties is in depressing evidence: Democrats seek to expand the franchise, while Republicans seek to restrict it.

By 1869, amendments had been passed to abolish slavery and provide citizenship and equal protection under the laws, but the election of Ulysses S. Grant to the presidency in 1868 convinced a majority of Republicans that protecting the franchise of black voters was important for the party's future.

"But the bigger reason that Republicans have resisted expanding the franchise," Dr. Minnite said, "is that the new people who are likely to come into the electorate are more often of lower income and are people of color, who tend to vote Democratic".

Lafayette was received by the new king, but the staunch republican opposed the new, highly restrictive franchise for the Chamber of Deputies that granted the vote to only 90,000 men in a nation of 25 million.

To get noticed in those years, a Texas Republican had to endorse against the strongest political franchise in the state — a career move in the wrong direction.

Timmerman offered no evidence that Chrysler dealers losing their franchises are any more or less Republican than that of auto dealers as a whole.

The South Carolina law is part of a wave of new rules, passed in the wake of the 2010 Republican landslide purportedly to stop vote fraud, that limit the right to the franchise.