MORTON: White, property-owning men were the only voters back then. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Democratic National Convention: Revisiting the Kennedy Legacy - August 15, 2000] Reference
In short, they set out to create a large property-owning population. From Wordnik.com. [The Commanding Heights] Reference
After all, they were patriotic, property-owning, tax-paying American citizens. From Wordnik.com. [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]
You don't defeat them "through elections and concessions to their big property-owning paymasters.". From Wordnik.com. [New Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela] Reference
BEDFORD, N.Y. After spending 36 years as a consultant to property-owning firms and tycoons, 60-year-old. From Wordnik.com. [Empire Builder: Howie Gelbtuch Is Donald Trump Writ Small] Reference
The rating system in Scotland is outmoded and a positive hindrancee to the whole property-owning system. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Home Rule] Reference
Blair liked to talk of building a "stakeholder economy" with a big role for the ordinary property-owning citizen. From Wordnik.com. [End of the ‘Ownership Society’] Reference
Two of the funds own no shopping centers themselves but instead hold stakes in many of the property-owning funds. From Wordnik.com. [Centro's Shield] Reference
Suppose we agree that we would like our society to have widespread home ownership and a property-owning citizenry. From Wordnik.com. [Why Canada Avoided a Mortgage Meltdown] Reference
Before the American Revolution, almost everywhere you had to be a property-owning adult white male in order to vote. From Wordnik.com. [Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800] Reference
There will be a property-owning compnay, and fully equipped casinos will be leased to various operating companies at. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Blair, for example, liked to talk of building a "stakeholder economy" with a big role for the ordinary property-owning citizen. From Wordnik.com. [Awaking From the All-American Dream] Reference
"Strict constructionists" like Nalitz harken to the time of the founding fathers, when only property-owning white males enjoyed the right to vote. From Wordnik.com. [Michele Swenson: "Non-Personhood" for Women: Defining Women Down] Reference
On Rawlsian justice in political economy: Capitalism, "property-owning democracy", and the welfare state (Research paper series) by Richard Krouse. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: How Gonzales Plans to Defend Eavesdropping] Reference
This shows how many people have won or lost, more dramatically than was possible before 1979, under the new rules of the "property-owning democracy". From Wordnik.com. [So You Think You Know About Britain? by Danny Dorling - review] Reference
A man with 36 years experience as a consultant to property-owning firms and tycoons is building his own real-estate empire -- albeit on a small scale. From Wordnik.com. [Magnate of Miniatures] Reference
Ever since the New Deal, American politicians have proclaimed their faith in the "property-owning democracy" and the "American dream of home-ownership.". From Wordnik.com. [Niall Ferguson: Beyond the Age of Leverage: Alternative Cures for the Global Financial Crisis] Reference
We went from a very small group of white, property-owning men having citizenship, and gradually expanded it to include black men, and then to include women. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The First Lady At Makerere University] Reference
In a property-owning society like ours, voters want to own homes and hold assets at their death that are worth a lot, and to pass them on to their children. From Wordnik.com. [A taxing friendship] Reference
Popular myth aside, the 55 delegates who met in Philadelphia from May to September, 1787 were very ordinary self-serving, privileged, property-owning white men. From Wordnik.com. [America and Venezuela - Constitutional Worlds Apart] Reference
A “bourgeois revolution led by the emerging property-owning middle class” and “the potential for the simmering resentment in the countryside to boil over.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Everyone Copies It, But Does Anyone Translate It?] Reference
Original intent was that only property-owning men (preferably white) be allowed to vote, but we amended the Constitution to allow every American 18 or older to vote. From Wordnik.com. [Protecting Our Constitution From Those Who Would 'Save' It] Reference
"This can only mean that the NP's attempt to pose as guarantor of inidvidual liberty, a property-owning democracy and a free-enterprise economy is nothing but a hollow sham.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It would have been the first time in my whole life that the population of property-owning Alma males over the age of 18 would have increased without decreasing at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [The Promise of an Outlaw] Reference
Consider the fact that while our Declaration of Independence and Constitution proclaimed liberty and justice for all, originally this only applied to property-owning white males. From Wordnik.com. [Message On Unfinished Work Of Building One America] Reference
Jim Crow or to restrict voting rights to property-owning males. From Wordnik.com. [www2.timesdispatch.com - News] Reference
That is the idea behind the principle of property-owning democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Booker Rising] Reference
For the party, running a property-owning dictatorship is far from easy. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary]
And at the end he threatens all property-owning religious with everlasting death. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to British PM urges Turkey to use links to influence Iran] Reference
Before universal suffrage was established the property-owning class was in control of both state and city government. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy] Reference
And until you started talking socialization, nobody could have imagined property without a Masterly property-owning class. From Wordnik.com. [A Slave is a Slave] Reference
Many handed keys to their lender in a desperate withdrawal from the property-owning democracy envisaged by Margaret Thatcher. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
This is not strange, however, when we remember that it was the property-owning class that framed and secured the adoption of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy] Reference
As a result, six special purpose property-owning subsidiaries are in default on their mortgage loans: Stadium Towers in Central Orange County, Park Place II in. From Wordnik.com. [Business Wire Travel News] Reference
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