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America’s 250th anniversary is a moment to reflect on our founding principles and the remarkable story of our nation. Discover the people, ideas, and documents that shaped the United States and continue to inspire generations.
History Holds the Key to the Future
2026 Study–The Consent of the Governed: Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
Today’s Essay
Essay 8-A: The Spread Of Universal Male Suffrage In The Early 1800s
Rhode Island, in 1842, was the venue of a skirmish grandiosely called the Dorr War, after Thomas Dorr [Door], the leader of the ultimately losing side. That skirmish, in turn, was rooted in the broader political struggle playing out in the United States between adherents to the founding generation’s republicanism and the increasingly emboldened “common people” embracing the ideas and shibboleths [Shi-buh-leth] of Jacksonian Democracy.
Although the Constitution itself is silent on the point, most states in the founding decades required voters to possess a freehold estate in land, or in a few more democratic-minded states, to meet a surrogate standard based on otherwise taxable personal property. The requirement rested on classic republican doctrine generally endorsed by Americans at the time. The broad propertied middle and upper classes were the main sources of public revenue. Thus, they could safely be trusted to act wisely due to their keener interest in the overall effects of public policies and to act more independently because their property insulated them from vote-buying schemes and similar base enticements. Those with “skin in the game” would decide based on reflection and reason, not enthusiasm and passion.
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