No, what I said was tradition. To earn the right to vote, you needed to be a landowner. Being one implied that you had skin in the game, that the continued prosperity of the country was beneficial to you. Unmarried women, and recently-arrived wealthy immigrants, could fulfil those requirements.
No, that came about after. The US constitution was designed around only land owners having a vote.
Same with the UK. People were tortured and killed for asking for the right to vote during the 1800s.
Then in 1918, after millions of men gave their life to defend their country- they all got the right to vote.
Women got the right to vote months later and somehow this is the only struggle history remembers.
White male landowners.
No, widows, spinsters and legal immigrant landowners too.
No. No spinsters. No immigrants (unless according to 1790 naturalization act).
Return to tradition.
No, what I said was tradition. To earn the right to vote, you needed to be a landowner. Being one implied that you had skin in the game, that the continued prosperity of the country was beneficial to you. Unmarried women, and recently-arrived wealthy immigrants, could fulfil those requirements.