For what else do they disfranchise the people?
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
If another complained of their venality, we replied, "disfranchise them or put them in jail."
"The Souls of Black Folk"
W. E. B. Du Bois
He had proposed to disfranchise partially or completely 110 boroughs; a proposition which had seemed so revolutionary that it was at first received with laughter by the Opposition, who were confident no such measure could ever pass.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond