RE: [OT] Voting schemes

You do indeed recall correctly re earlier English voting systems, and of
course women and people under 21 didn't get the vote until the 20th
Century.

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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 2:11 PM
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Subject: [OT] Voting schemes

laserlight@quixnet.net schrieb:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net>
>
> > Instead of "one man, one vote", maybe it should be "one
> > pound (dollar, whatever), one vote".

> Karl:
> >There  have been a number of countries with similar a
> plutocratic voting schemes.
>
> oh?  which?  (not denying it, just asking for my information)

Well, states which had voting schemes based on the wealth of their
voters and/or excluded poor citizens either completely or restricted
them to specific topics include:

Most ancient Greek city states
Ancient Rome in the Republican period
Most medieval European City states
19th century Prussia and, later, Imperial Germany until 1918
IIRC England in the 19th century and earlier had property-based
restrictions on voting (but I may be wrong here).

Greetings
Karl Heinz