HankW501
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« on: February 14, 2015, 05:35:16 PM » |
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I recently read a terrific quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin regarding the practice of allowing only property owners to vote:
"Today a man owns a jackass worth 50 dollars and he is entitled to vote; but before the next election the jackass dies. The man in the mean time has become more experienced, his knowledge of the principles of government, and his acquaintance with mankind, are more extensive, and he is therefore better qualified to make a proper selection of rulers—but the jackass is dead and the man cannot vote. Now gentlemen, pray inform me, in whom is the right of suffrage? In the man or in the jackass?"
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