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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

People talk of citizens being disfranchised for the Legislative Council when they really mean that they are unenfranchised.

From An Autobiography by Spence, Catherine Helen

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

One by one classes of men have been granted the vote until women are the only remaining unenfranchised class.

From Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment by Catt, Carrie Chapman

Forty years later it had become the demand of an unenfranchised nation, disabused by a sudden spread of political and economical knowledge.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various