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8210. SUFFRAGE, Property qualification.—[further continued].

In the scheme of constitution
for Virginia which I prepared in 1783,
* * * I found [the suffrage] on a year's
residence in the country, or the possession of
property in it, or a year's enrollment in its
militia.—
To Jeremiah Moor. Ford ed., vii, 454.
(M. Aug. 1800)