Most of these disfranchised small landowners were not wealthy to begin with and were reduced to poverty following the conscation of their land.
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Being disfranchised apparently did not protect them from the fire of campaign warfare.
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Finally, we compare the two parties' uses of slurs to underwrite both prevailing gender ideologies and their respective strategies for including or excluding the disfranchised from politics.
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If the shopkeeper refused permission, the homeless person would be disfranchised.
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He takes a course, in a sense, of disfranchising fellows like me.
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Were all the removals and outvoters disfranchised by mutual agreement, or not?
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Not one single right is taken awn; not, one single person is disfranchised.
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The electorate are disfranchised and disenchanted by our confrontational system of party politics, which is entrenched by first-past-the-post systems.
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You are disfranchising people who are entitled to a vote, and whose qualifications to vote have never caused any demur or any question.
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If the number of persons is limited to two who may be enfranchised, that clearly woulddisfranchisetwo of those women.
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The other real irony of this case lies in the people who are censuring him for lack of integrity, for disfranchising.
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As a result, a large number of people in the constituency felt disfranchised.
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We gave careful consideration to this and thought that a constituency should not be disfranchised for longer than a month.
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I cannot for the life of me see why the professional classes who occupy premises under this system should be disfranchised.
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I appreciate that one of the effects of being homeless, among other damaging effects, is that someone can be disfranchised.
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