[Responsibility2nd]

Thanks. I went looking for the specifics in the Constitution about land-owners being authorized to vote. Couldn’t find it.

Now I know why.

[allmendream]

Franklin was opposed to the idea of property ownership as a requirement for suffrage in principle, and made a rather humorous joke out of it; the “jackass principle”.

The Constitution originally left it up to the States as to who could vote and who could not, although later Amendments would spell out (and expand to) a near universal adult enjoyment of the voting franchise; making adult suffrage the Constitutional (but not entirely originalist) position.