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3.42- The Whiff of Grapeshot

Revolutions

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The Constitution of Year Three - Voting Rights

Full citizenship and the voting rights that went with it were reserved for tax paying mails over the age of 21. Primary assemblies would select electors to go off to a further assembly where actual delegates to the national government would be chosen. To be an elector you had to clear a further property qualification that trimmed the list of actual voters down to just 30 thousand men, which was even more restrictive than 17 91 had been.

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