All 3 Uses of
franchise
in
Declaration of Sentiments
- He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.†
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- Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.†
- Now in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation -- in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States.†
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Definitions:
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(franchise as in: franchise to vote) a privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
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(franchise as in: franchise business) a right granted by one organization to another -- most frequently the right of a small company to do business under the brand name and systems of a larger company (as when a local McDonalds restaurant is owned by an individual rather than the McDonalds Corporation)