Blacks Law - 4th Edition
DISFRANCHISE
DISFRANCHISE. To deprive of the rights and
privileges of a free citizen; to deprive of charter..
ed rights and immunities; to deprive of any franchise,
as of the right of voting in elections, etc.
Webster.
In any election where the party system furnishes the
means by which the citizen's right of suffrage is made effective,
denial of his party's right to participate in the
election accomplishes the "disfranchisement of voters" or
compels them, if they vote, to vote for representatives or
political parties other than that to which they belong, and
the deprivation of the right of selection is a deprivation of
the right of franchise. Communist Party of United States
of America v. Peek, 20 Ca1.2d 536, 127 P.2d 889, 894.
DISFRANCHISE. To deprive of the rights and
privileges of a free citizen; to deprive of charter..
ed rights and immunities; to deprive of any franchise,
as of the right of voting in elections, etc.
Webster.
In any election where the party system furnishes the
means by which the citizen's right of suffrage is made effective,
denial of his party's right to participate in the
election accomplishes the "disfranchisement of voters" or
compels them, if they vote, to vote for representatives or
political parties other than that to which they belong, and
the deprivation of the right of selection is a deprivation of
the right of franchise. Communist Party of United States
of America v. Peek, 20 Ca1.2d 536, 127 P.2d 889, 894.
