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Normally, students are willing to remain unenfranchised and even uninformed, but they are morally outraged to find no sympathy for full discussion on an issue that so directly affects their nonacademic lives.

From Time Magazine Archive

By a natural process too their superiority in wealth produced a fresh division between the "burghers" of the merchant-gild and the unenfranchised mass around them.

From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard

Yet to the middle-class England of his own time, that unenfranchised England which had little representation in Parliament, he was a voice, an inspiration, and a tower of strength.

From Montcalm and Wolfe by Parkman, Francis

The rich and prosperous provinces beyond the Po remained unenfranchised, while the value of the franchise itself was daily diminishing as the Senate resumed its control over the initiative of legislation.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony

But in 1777 the electorate was not anxious for reform, and the unenfranchised gave no thought to their political disabilities.

From The Rise of the Democracy by Clayton, Joseph