suffrage with property qualification

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• Suffrage — (from the Latin suffragium , meaning voting tablet , and figuratively right to vote ; probably from suffrago hough , and originally a term for the pastern bone used to cast votes) is the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right. In that …   Wikipedia

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• John Adams: On the Importance of Property for the Suffrage — ▪ Primary Source              James Sullivan, a member of the provincial congress of Massachusetts, corresponded with John Adams in May 1776 when the latter was a member of the Second Continental Congress. On May 6, Sullivan wrote a letter to… …   Universalium

• Universal manhood suffrage — is a form of voting rights in which all adult males within a nation are allowed to vote, regardless of income, property, religion, race, or any other qualification. This process of voting helped empower rising American leaders like Andrew Jackson …   Wikipedia

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• Forty Shilling Freeholders — were a group of (mostly) landowners who had the Parliamentary franchise to vote in county constituencies in various parts of the British Isles. In England it was the only such qualification from 1430 until 1832. It remained one of the… …   Wikipedia

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