Re: Nothing New Under The Sun
It is certainly true that it took more than a century to achieve nearly universal suffrage. Prior to that voting rights varied from state to state, and even within some states a good deal. Some states had religious and racial requirements and nearly all had property or tax status requirements, sometimes literacy tests. Slaves and their descendants, and women were the last to win suffrage. The Constitution itself has little to say about suffrage, although many of the later amendments do.
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