Legal Definition and Related Resources of Disfranchisement
Meaning of Disfranchisement
The act of depriving a member of a corporation of his right as such, by expulsion. 1 Bouv. Inst, note 192. It differs from amotion (g. v.), which is applicable to the removal of an officer from office, leaving him his rights as a member. Willcock, Corp. note 708; Angell & A. Corp. 237. And see “Expulsion.” Also to deprive of the power of exercising the rights of citizenship, such as voting or holding office.
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Keyssar, Alexander. The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Kousser, J. Morgan. Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Perman, Michael. Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
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