"franchise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.
- Having deprived her of this first right as a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.
- A sum of £15,000 was paid at the 1801 Union, to Gustavus Lambart, Esq., as Compensation for the loss of the elective franchise.
- Stanton's resolution that it was "the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise" was passed despite Mott's opposition.
- It was the site of the first Women's Rights Convention and where Elizabeth Cady Stanton demanded the right to free elective franchise.
- Thinking it might possibly be in the enjoyment of the elective franchise, he gave it a cordial and earnest grasp.
- The elective franchise was vested in the freemen at large, amounting, in the year 1832, to 94 in number; but by the act of the 2nd of Wm. IV., cap.
- Near the end of the war, Canada, Russia, Germany, and Poland also recognized women's right to participate in the elective franchise.
- On the vexing question of giving the Negro the vote, Lincoln conceded, "It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man.
- He was school commissioner from 1843 until 1851, a member of the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1846, and served on the committee on suffrage and elective franchise.
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