At any rate. no race issue was injected generally into the suffrage regulations. Another generation saw a marked change. In none of the Colonies except Pennsylvania was there rigid residence requirement of 2 years. And why the particular need there. true locally. yet not present elsewhere? Probably because of the conservative proprietors desire to limit the influence of the many recent immigrants. The property test was the most frequent and weightiest qualification. The cheapness of land led. in some instances. to the requirement above stated. namely. that the land be worth a certain sum in money or produce a certain income.
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