Word of the Day: ENFRANCHISE

Get your vote and use it

enfranchise (verb) - to give full privileges of citizenship or membership to, including the right to vote; to emancipate [en-fran-chahyz]

BREAKDOWN: EN- (put in) + FRANC- (free) + -ISE (to do)

• enfranchisement is a liberation or provision of full rights

• disenfranchise means to deprive someone of a vote, right, or privilege

“Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the presidential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.” —Susan B. Anthony