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What does disfranchisement mean?

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Prisoners are subjugated to a situation of absolute disfranchisement and exploitation.
Nevertheless, he did not advocate an immediate disfranchisement of rotten boroughs.
Tories in the House of Lords agreed to the disfranchisement of the borough, but refused to accept the precedent of directly transferring its seats to an industrial city.
The Whig Lord John Russell brought forward one such measure in 1820, proposing the disfranchisement of the notoriously corrupt borough of Grampound in Cornwall.
Eventually, such lack of ownership on the part of partner countries leads to a sense of disfranchisement and inaction.
In 1895 he delivered a moving speech before the South Carolina constitutional convention in a gallant but futile attempt to prevent the virtual disfranchisement of blacks.

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