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An economic interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

Note 95 — Chapter IV · PROPERTY SAFEGUARDS IN THE ELECTION OF DELEGATES

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On the suffrage and elections in general in the eighteenth century, see the state constitutions in the well-known collections of Poore and Thorpe; A. E. McKinley, The Suffrage Franchise in the Thirteen English Colonies; Paullin’s “The First Elections under the Constitution,” Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. II; Jameson, “Did the Fathers Vote,” New England Magazine, January, 1890; Thorpe, Constitutional History of the American People; S. H. Miller, “Legal Qualifications for Office,” American Historical Association Report (1899), Vol. I; F. A. Cleveland, Growth of Democracy; C. F. Bishop, History of Elections in the American Colonies; see below, Chap. IX.

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