The planters lost political influence with the abolition of the College of Electors and the relaxation of voter qualification.
Clarity is required over voter qualification and also what is done about abstentions.
The Twenty-fourth Amendment bars states from using the payment of a tax as a voter qualification in federal elections.
The only directly elected body created by the original Constitution was the House of Representatives, for which voter qualifications were explicitly delegated to the individual states.
This reform kept in force the previous voter qualifications.
The parties are also preparing to battle over voter qualifications in Florida, where they had until last Tuesday to register challengers.
In a 1966 case, the Court struck down state poll taxes on the principle that "voter qualifications have no relation to wealth."
In 1832, only 440,000 met the voter qualifications in a population of 17 million.
It instituted a system of special courts to review disputes relating to voter qualifications.
While no constituencies were disfranchised in either of these countries, voter qualifications were standardised and the size of the electorate was expanded in both.
