enfranchisement

• The shortest method to secure this enfranchisement is the quickest method to extricate our country from the absurdity of its present position VI. —  Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment
• That some of the evils which have mingled with the good in Russian enfranchisement might have been less had the Czar resolutely stood by the authors of reform and allowed them to complete their work in accordance with their own designs and convictions, is scarcely open to doubt. —  A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
• The melancholy absurdity of giving these people votes, at any rate at present, would glare at one out of every roll of their eyes, chuckle in their mouths, and bump in their heads, if one did not see (as one cannot help seeing in the country) that their enfranchisement is a mere party trick to get votes. —  The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
• It has roused wise men to thought on the question, stirred the bar and bench of the nation, with the prospect of a new and fruitful source of litigation; it has inspired woman with fresh hope that the day of her enfranchisement is at hand, given the press of the country solid arguments for their consideration, and changed the tone of the speeches in our conventions from whinings about brutal husbands, stolen babies, and special laws, to fundamental principles of human rights. —  History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
• The shortest method to secure this enfranchisement is the quickest method to extricate our country from the absurdity of its present position. —  Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment

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