[Imagine]

If the founding fathers were writing the bill of rights today, I'm certain that we would find the following: "Any individual whose housing, food or medical treatment is subsidized by the state or whose children is supported by allowances provided by the state shall be prohibited from voting in any local, state or federal election." Or something to that effect....

[Chemist_Geek]

"Any individual whose housing, food or medical treatment is subsidized by the state or whose children is supported by allowances provided by the state shall be prohibited from voting in any local, state or federal election." Or something to that effect....

Disenfranchising soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and their families? Isn't that what Gore tried to do lately?

[Swordmaker]

If the founding fathers were writing the bill of rights today, I'm certain that we would find the following: "Any individual whose housing, food or medical treatment is subsidized by the state or whose children is supported by allowances provided by the state shall be prohibited from voting in any local, state or federal election." Or something to that effect...

Actually it WAS there! The original franchise was limited to Property Owning Men... hardly people who would be dependent on the government for the support of their children. Note that this was before the concept of corporate welfare, crop subsidies, oil depletion allowances, etc., was created making even property owners capable of getting government support.