[Sapwolf]

There is ONE main and important reform to our Constitution needed:

The right to vote is lost upon taking any direct employee or contractor compensation from the federal government, or any form of governments payments such as medicare, medicaid, social security, or any of the myriad other transfer payment programs.

Militory members lose the their right to vote while in the military, but immediately have it restored upon discharge if no longer compensated by the government.

Other non-military people who lost their vote but do not take government funds have it restored two years later.

This is the must reform any constitutional republic needs.

Any money from the government by default sets a terrible conflict of interest and should be BANNED!

[Jacquerie]

Property/wealth qualifications, which are related to your post, were considered and rejected at the federal convention. There were too many regional differences to set a single standard. That is the reason for Article I Section 2, paragraph one, in which the states individually determine voter quals (notwithstanding subsequent amendments) for the house, and for the past hundred years, the senate.

As it worked out, the framers had few complaints against universal suffrage for white males AS LONG AS THE STATES WERE REPRESENTED IN THE SENATE to counter what was expected to be a wildly democratic house of representatives.