Electoral law

The twenty-seventh entry is la privazione del diritto di voto, five words for something English names in one. Italian has no single noun for the right to vote: it says il diritto di voto and builds everything on top of that. English has « the franchise », and a reader meeting it in a political text is unlikely to guess what it is doing there, because the word is better known from shop fronts. Both senses are alive and they never touch. « The franchise » in politics is the right to vote, held by a class of people rather than granted to one person, as in « the extension of the franchise » or « a property franchise ». From it come the two verbs this entry needs, « to enfranchise » and « to disenfranchise », and the second is exactly what the Italian describes. The other « franchise » is commercial, the licence to trade under somebody else’s name, and for that one Italian borrows from English instead: il franchising. So the sense a learner already knows is the one that will not help here.