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A Broad Federalist’s View on Universal Suffrage in Britain
The letter argues against universal suffrage, urging power to reside with independent landowners. It cites Plato, Hume, and Paine, warns of mob rule, and favors a quintile of property owners with a clear income threshold to safeguard liberty and property. It also criticizes demagogues and supports limited, qualified voting.
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Plato
Aristotle
Harringtons
Lockey Hume
Montesquieu
Paine
England
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Sheridan
Grey
Horne'Tooke
Dunning
St. James's
St.Giles’s
Jacobin Club
Manege
Athens
Rome
Solon
Servius Tullius
Fohn
Greece
Alexandria
Augustus
Constituent Assembly
France
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