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enfranchisement

Noun

(plural enfranchisements)

The act of enfranchising
The release from slavery
The investiture with any of several municipal privileges
(UK, law) conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold
enfranchisement of copyhold

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In the year 91, which brought with it the imminent prospect of sweeping political change, with the enfranchisement of the Italian peoples, Sulla returned to Rome, and it was generally felt that he was the man to lead the conservative and aristocratic party.
A proclamation was issued demanding the community of goods, the abolition of the right of inheritance, and the enfranchisement of women.
The Revolution of 1868 in Spain promised such salutary changes for the Antilles as the introduction of political parties, the restoration of representation in the Spanish Cortes, and the enfranchisement of the slaves; but the imprudent "Insurrection of Lares," and other outbreaks of 1867-68, delayed these anticipated reforms. The reactionaries feared separation from the mother country.
He soon showed a willingness to rule as a non-partisan, and favoured the re-enfranchisement of white citizens.
Other deputies rose to demand the repeal of the game laws, the enfranchisement of such serfs as were still to be found in France, and the abolition of tithes and of feudal courts and to renounce all privileges, whether of classes, of cities, or of provinces.

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