• Disfranchisement, also disenfranchisement (which has become more common since 1982) or voter disqualification, is the restriction of suffrage (the right...
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    states had dropped enforcement of disfranchisement of ex-Confederates with the exception of Arkansas, where disfranchisement of ex-Confederates was dropped...
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    The Disfranchising Act was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Ireland debated in 1727 and enacted in 1728, one of a series of Penal Laws, and prohibited...
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  • Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited is a 1999 biography of American General Samuel Chapman Armstrong and his associated normal school for freedmen...
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    The Sligo and Cashel Disfranchisement Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 38) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which removed the separate franchise...
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    majority of Alabama residents support same-sex marriage. With the disfranchisement of Blacks in 1901, the state became part of the "Solid South", a system...
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  • being made invisible in the political system: "[W]ithin a decade of disfranchisement, the white supremacy campaign had erased the image of the black middle...
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    supported him, but they grew apart as Du Bois sought more action to remedy disfranchisement and improve educational opportunities for blacks. After their falling...
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    and laws. Blacks and immigrants, however, resisted Democratic Party disfranchisement efforts in the state. Maryland blacks were part of a biracial Republican...
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  • vote on grounds of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era began soon after. Former Confederate states...
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  • possibly acquiring a passport. Though through discriminatory laws, like disfranchisement and outright apartheid citizens have been made second-class citizens...
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  • The Coloured vote constitutional crisis, also known as the Coloured vote case, was a constitutional crisis that occurred in the Union of South Africa during...
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    only 5,320 black voters were registered in the state. Because of disfranchisement, by 1910 there were only 730 black voters (less than 0.5 percent of...
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    mid-1960s helped overturn the state's Jim Crow laws that effectively disfranchised African Americans. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 made Virginia one of...
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  • 12, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2009. Feldman, Glenn (2004). The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama. Auburn: University...
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    (online ed.). Texas State Historical Association. "Nixon v. Condon. Disfranchisement of the Negro in Texas". The Yale Law Journal. 41 (8): 1212–1221. June...
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    failures that led to an unacceptable number of Ugandan citizens being disfranchised." Since August 2012, hacktivist group Anonymous has threatened Ugandan...
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    racial violence and for better opportunities in the North and the West. Disfranchisement for most African Americans in the state persisted until the Civil Rights...
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  • overturned by a petition alleging gross bribery, Lord John Russell moved to disfranchise Grampound and to transfer the two members to a new Parliamentary Borough...
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  • constitutions from 1890 to 1910 to achieve disfranchisement of most blacks. Many poor whites were also disfranchised in these years, by changes to voter registration...
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    Constitution p. 23 Constitution p.12 Smith, John David (January 11, 1993). Disfranchisement Proposals and the Ku Klux Klan. Garland Publishing, Incorporated. ISBN 9780815309819...
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    and other Southern states rapidly devised new methods to continue disfranchisement of most black people, who comprised a majority in the state until the...
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    Democratic dominance remained strong, due in large part to pervasive disfranchisement of blacks. In 17 states, the Parker–Davis ticket failed to carry a...
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    flag in various ways: Article 105 imposes up to 5 years in prison, disfranchisement of up to 10 years, or a fine up to 7 million South Korean won for damaging...
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    original on July 7, 2010. Retrieved July 2, 2010. Charles Ambler "Disfranchisement in West Virginia", Yale Review, 1905, pg. 41 Chisholm 1911, pp. 563–564...
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    court was divided on the punishment for the magistrate and opted for disfranchisement over banishment. Then Aspinwall, the other dismissed Boston deputy...
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    dependence on cheap labor while stirring the democratic ambitions of the disfranchised and undermining white supremacy." Ancient Greek: ἀριστοκρατία aristokratía...
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    Bushman (2008, p. 13) Groberg, Joseph (Spring 1976). "The Mormon Disfranchisements of 1882 to 1892". Brigham Young University Studies. 16 (3): 400. Bushman...
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    constitutional amendment incorporating a "grandfather clause" that effectively disfranchised freedmen as well as the propertied people of color manumitted before...
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  • the United States, motivated by concerns of both electoral fraud and disfranchisement. There are ongoing extensive debates of the fairness and effects of...
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