OH,1861, that great year when several million people in this country were slaves, and could be whipped, branded, hunted with dogs, dragged back from free states if they succeeded in escaping their imprisonment, have their wives and children sold away without any recourse, etc. And, of course, women could NOT vote. And, were there still property requirements for voting? I am so glad this has always been a free country. NOT!! Oh, wait, I guess it was free for about 20% of the population, maybe?
The Founders didn't want women , those under 21 , non property owners, and imbeciles to vote, that's why they left it up to the states to set the requirements for who gets to vote, and the States followed the Founders lead and didn't expand the franchise.
4 Amendments and Motor Voter later, guess which groups now have the vote and regularly exercise it to put Communists in power?
As far as the slaves, seems the tables have been turned.
Try not paying the IRS and see what happens to you, I'd rather take my chances with the dogs.
Seems like the descendants of the slaves are the masters now, just voting themselves more and more of the guy in the big houses money, who is under penalty of imprisonment for non-compliance.
John Adams to James Sullivan on the suffrage (1776)
The same reasoning which will induce you to admit all men who have no property, to vote, with those who have . . . will prove that you ought to admit women and children; for, generally speaking, women and children have as good judgments, and as independent minds, as those men who are wholly destitute of property. . . . Depend upon it, Sir, it is dangerous to open so fruitful a source of controversy and altercation as would be opened by attempting to alter the qualifications of voters; there will be no end of it. New claims will arise; women will demand the vote; lads from twelve to twenty-one will think their rights not enough attended to; and every man who has not a farthing, will demand an equal voice with any other, in all acts of state. It tends to confound and destroy all distinctions, and prostrate all ranks to one common level.