Disfranchisement
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Disenfranchisement or disfranchisement is the revocation of, or failure to grant, the right of suffrage (the right to vote) to a person or group of people. Disfranchisement might occur explicitly through law, or implicitly by intimidation.
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Etymology
From Middle English franchise, fraunchise, from Old French franchise (“freedom”), a derivative of franc (“free”). More at frank.
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See also
- Ableism
- Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era (United States)
- Felony disenfranchisement
- Transgender disenfranchisement in the United States
- Hirst v. the United Kingdom (No. 2)
- Lishenets (disfranchised in the Soviet Union)
- Non-citizens (Latvia)
- Nuremberg Laws
- Political alienation
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