After crossing the borders of Poland, the thoughtful stranger cannot divest himself of an earnest even though silent sympathy with the people who are so thoroughly disfranchised in a political sense; and yet truth compels us to say, that few if any outward signs of oppression met the eye.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
In short, it all comes to this, that many M.P.'s are afraid of losing their seats by a dissolution, and many others whose boroughs are disfranchised hate the Reform Bill, and many more are anti-Reformers by nature, and all these combine to stifle it....
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
In this connection it is worthy of note that the revenue officers were disfranchised in 1782 at their own request.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell