[Kenny Bunk]

Of course, who votes and for what has always been the question.

Free men of property, 21 and older (white and black, BTW. And yes Trayvon, quite a few blacks owned slaves), who passed literacy tests, paid a poll tax, and were citizens who voted for George Washington , Jefferson, and Adams. Out of a population of some 3-4 million, perhaps 150,000 votes.

First "reach-out" men without property. Second, those who could not pay poll taxes, then women, then the illiterate and minors. All rather neatly illustrates Democracy's fundamental flaw: eventually an election becomes "Tyranny of the Stupid," a vote to continue receiving benefits promised by those for whom one votes.

[GOJPN]

You beat me to this.