Free Republic

The right to vote is one of the most misunderstood rights in American law. ... It must be noted that the Constitution does not prohibit all restrictions on voting rights. Sex and race are the big ones, but at one time, states did restrict the right to vote to property owners. This gradually vanished, until today, the right to vote is popularly considered a human right, endowed to us by our Creator. It is not in the founding documents, however. In too many cases, allowing incompetent people to vote amounts to giving matches to small children — matches and dynamite....