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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Me thinks you are mistaken:

“Voting is controlled
by individual state legislatures. Only white men age 21 and older who own land can vote.”
Sosa.gov

Cry-USA.org
“ Becoming a freeholder was not difficult for a man in colonial America since land was plentiful and cheap. Thus up to 75 percent of the adult males in most colonies qualified as voters.”


15 posted on 12/16/2022 5:11:25 PM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8
Me thinks you did not read your own post.

States determined who could vote and so sorry but "Only white men age 21 and older who own land can vote" was not the case in all states.

In New Jersey for example women could vote if they owned personal property of 50 pounds. Which was not very much. Free blacks could also vote, subject to the same restrictions.

The idea of ownership of land being the deciding factor in all states is so much hooey. In the south land was often the deciding factor during the first few years. But slowly that factor was done away with until in 1856 it was done away with entirely.

16 posted on 12/16/2022 7:53:35 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Phoenix8
BTW colonial America was when we were under British rule.

After November 30, 1782 we were no longer under British rule and that time is considered post colonial.

17 posted on 12/16/2022 7:58:09 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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