[Vision2020] R.L. Dabney on the expansion of suffrage

[Edward Sebesta]

This is the essay where R.L. Dabney is against the elimination of
property qualifications for the right to vote. 

Applied to modern day conditions you might have to have so much property
to vote. For example if you are a renter and you don't have much money
in the bank or bonds or stocks or mutual funds or other property you
don't have the right to vote. 

This is the page:

http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/DabneyTheNewSouth.htm

Start at the red No. 6. 

Essentially R.L. Dabney thought the restriction of voting should be to a
small group of propertied white men. No women, no African Americans, no
poor people. 

Douglas Wilson refers to this in his lecture of the foresight of the
fathers, being R.L. Dabney and what Wilson thinks is Dabney's wonderful
wisdom. 


Ed Sebesta