>>938006236
>Free white people of good character
That wasn't the standard. It was landowners, specifically, who could vote.
You're talking about a very short period in American history where people like you, who didn't own land or stake in politics, in a temporary home, who was white and male, and apart of the age of majority, could vote.
Before that, only wealthy landowners, people who had so-called "standing."
It took until 1828 before a majority of whites who didn't own property could vote, and before that, they were still being granted citizenship.
Mexicans HAVE to be allowed to vote, as that was a specific provision of the Treaty of Hidalgo, it would breach an international treaty of 176 years to remove the Mexican vote, and Mexican Citizenship of Mexicans who's ancestors were present in the United States during that time.
If you were too poor to pay taxes, you still couldn't vote. This means people who bought secondary, or who didn't make direct imports.
If you couldn't afford the Poll Tax, a still very common thing at this point you could not vote.
By 1868-1870, within 40 years of every white man being able to vote, everyone was allowed to vote (besides women,) although attempts to prevent colored voting were still prevalent due to Jim Crowe, the KKK, etc.
The world you're asking for has no precedent, and wasn't even a significant part of American History, we just as quickly gave blacks the right to citizenship, and suffrage, just as quickly as we did anyone else, including the already oppressed poor-majority of the United States in 1790-1880.
What if we just undid the whole constitution? You don't seem to mind removing provisions you don't like, willy nilly. I don't like the Religious Freedom provision, I think it should be the Freedom of Choice, it is obvious now that religious people will interpret religious freedom to mean "There is a protected class, and there's the rest of us."
