Examples of property in the following topics:
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- At the time of ratification of the Constitution, most states used property qualifications to restrict franchise.
- At the time of ratification of the Constitution, most states used property qualifications to restrict franchise.
- At the same time, convention delegates relaxed religious and property qualifications for whites.
- This extremely sharp rise was caused by the removal of property qualifications from the right to vote.
- This extremely sharp rise was caused by the removal of property qualifications from the right to vote.
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- At the time of ratification of the Constitution, most states used property qualifications to restrict franchise.
- White men without property, almost all women, and all other people of color were denied the right to vote.
- By 1850, nearly all requirements to own property or pay taxes had been dropped.
- Indeed, race replaced property qualifications as the criterion for voting rights.
- At the same time, convention delegates relaxed religious and property qualifications for whites.
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- She could not conduct business or buy and sell property.
- The Married Women's Property Act of 1839 was an Act of Statute in the state of Mississippi that significantly altered the law regarding property rights granted to married women, allowing them to own and control their own property.
- This was the first of a series of Married Women's Property Acts issued in the United States.
- The Married Women's Property Act of 1848 was a Statute in New York State.
- Women's property rights were again extended in 1860.
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- Republicanism idealized those who owned enough property to be both independently wealthy and staunchly committed to liberty and property rights.
- Property gave the adult white male "a stake in society, made him responsible, worthy of a voice."
- Enough taxable property and the right religion made him further eligible to hold office.
- States also counted slaves as property for voter-qualification purposes.
- Three states already favored abolishing property requirements.
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- Property gave a man "a stake in society, made him responsible, worthy of a voice. " Enough taxable property and the right religion made him further eligible for office holding.
- Relative to other societies of the time, many could vote because most property was held as family farms.
- States also counted slaves as property for purposes of voter qualification.
- Three states already favored abolishing property requirements.
- To allow all states their own rules of suffrage, the Constitution was written with no property requirements for voting.
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- Property gave a man "a stake in society, made him responsible, worthy of a voice".
- With enough taxable property and the right religion, most men could be eligible for office holding.
- Relative to other societies of the time, many people could vote, because most property was held as family farms.
- States also counted slaves as property for voter qualifications.
- However, three states were already in favor of abolishing property requirements.
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- The treaty was made up of 10 articles that addressed territorial
rights, treatment of Loyalists, and rights to bodies of water, property, and
debt.
- Release of prisoners
of war on either side, and for all property left in the U.S. by the British
government to be left unmolested, including slaves.
- Even after these negotiations were concluded, Britain retained control of the region as leverage in order to gain recompense for confiscated Loyalist property.
- Individual states ignored federal recommendations to restore confiscated Loyalist property, as required by Article 5 of the Treaty, and also continued the practice of confiscating Loyalist property for "unpaid debts", in violation of Article 6.
- Individual British soldiers ignored the provision of Article 7, which required them to abandon their property in the United States, particularly in respect to their relinquishment of slaves.
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- After the Glorious Revolution, British and Anglo-American intellectuals contended that (white) men had inalienable rights to liberty and property.
- For instance, in 1690, John Locke (one of the fathers of the English Enlightenment) wrote that all people have fundamental natural rights to "life, liberty and property" and that governments were created in order to protect these rights.
- For instance, even though most British males did not meet the property ownership requirements for suffrage, the representative traits of Parliament were praised by many intellectual contemporaries who believed that such a political system best embodied the "social contract" that men used to create civilization and political authority.
- Public office attracted many talented young men of ambition to civil service, and colonial North American suffrage was one of the most widespread in the world at that time, with every man who owned a certain amount of property allowed to vote.
- The widespread availability of property in the thirteen colonies provided most white males with the opportunity to own some amount of property; therefore, while fewer than 1% of British men could vote, a majority of white American men were eligible to vote and run for office.
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- Public office attracted many talented young men of ambition to civil service, and colonial North American suffrage was the most widespread in the world at that time; every free white man who owned a certain amount of property was allowed to vote.
- The widespread availability of property in the thirteen colonies afforded most white males the chance to own some amount of property.
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- Substantial property qualifications for voting and even more substantial requirements for elected positions (though New York and Maryland lowered property qualifications)
- Universal white male suffrage, or minimal property requirements for voting or holding office (New Jersey enfranchised some property-owning widows, a step it retracted 25 years later)