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To: Monsieur Poirot

“The Framers wrote the Constitution, then, to safeguard against the chief defect of democratic/representative government – the oppression of the wealthy minority by the poor majority.”

Obviously this is not the case if property requirements for voting franchise were removed through the Constitution.


11 posted on 01/05/2009 3:13:09 PM PST by marsh2
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To: marsh2

The prop requirements were NOT removed. Who told you that? Who got the franchise was left to the states, and they could impose prop requirements if they wanted.


13 posted on 01/05/2009 4:29:50 PM PST by Monsieur Poirot
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