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disenfranchised

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dis·en·fran·chise  (dsn-frnchz)
tr.v. dis·en·fran·chised, dis·en·fran·chis·ing, dis·en·fran·chis·es
To disfranchise.

disen·franchisement (-chzmnt, -chz-) n.
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Adj.1.disenfranchiseddisenfranchised - deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets"
enfranchised - endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote


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5x7" is a compilation of photographs (fifty-seven plates) taken by Eggleston during the early 1970s and includes images of streetscapes, parked automobiles, portraits of the strange and disenfranchised.
This requirement grew out of the 2000 elections, when hundreds of thousands of eligible voters were disenfranchised because of faulty voter registration systems.
Told in from the first-person point of view of the outsider, The Salvation of La Purisima is a profound and heartrending look of a disenfranchised and poverty-ridden society that, driven by the necessity of its own survival, culturally pressures its members to make a perilous migration and earn money whether they want to go or not.
 
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