Sentence example with the word 'disfranchising'

disfranchising

Last update: October 19, 2015


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Some years later the Puritans, being in a majority in the Maryland General Assembly, passed an act disfranchising Roman Catholics and members of the Church of England.   [Please select]

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This interpretive legislation gave a broad basis for the military government and resulted in a severe application of the disfranchising provisions of the laws.   [Please select]

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Grant thereupon fixed a time for voting in each state and directed that in Virginia and Mississippi the disfranchising clauses be submitted separately.   [Please select]

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The conservatives, hopelessly reduced by the operation of disfranchising laws, were at first not well organized, nor were they at any time as well led as in antebellum days.   [Please select]

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Then the question arose whether or not disfranchising Negro women would carry this penalty and the result was a rewording which struck out "color" and added "male."   [Please select]

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Oklahoma adopted its disfranchising amendment in 1910, without valid reason so far as any one outside the State could see, as the proportion of negroes was very small.   [Please select]

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