No ICE at the Polls! Voting is the democratic part of Democracy! It is the work we do to choose the representatives in our representative Republic! Dill Buckley called it: Our Civic Sacrament." Attitudes and rules for voting evolved from the Time of our Great Declaration to the present. Our nation was not born fully grown and having an adult understanding. Like all infants, it had to grow into adulthood slowly and often, erratically. At the start, most of the founders believed that only white adult male property owners would have the right to cast a ballot, though by the end of the revolution, people came to realize that the war itself was won by mostly young males who owned little to no property. After the Declaration, each colony wrote a constitution. All but Pennsylvania included property ownership as a requirement for the right to vote. Franklin was asked why he did not include that requirement in the document. He explained that if a man owns a jackass, he ca...
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