| 单词 | property qualification |
| 释义 | > as lemmasproperty qualification property qualification n. a qualification for office (e.g. as a member of parliament), or for the exercise of a right (e.g. that of voting), based on the possession of a certain amount of property. ΚΠ 1794 Soc. United Irishmen of Dublin 125 That no Property Qualification should be necessary to intitle any Man to be a Representative. 1807 Deb. Congr. U.S. 16 Nov. (1852) 916 The Constitution of the United States requires no property qualification in the elected. 1851 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire III. xxxii. 505 He raised the property qualification to twelve hundred thousand sesterces. 1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 590 The strange notion..that a property qualification was needed for a seat in the Witenagemót. 1960 C. Williamson Amer. Suffrage ix. 174 The Pennsylvania constitution was anathema, not only because it did not require a property qualification for voting but also because foreigners were permitted to vote after only two years' residence. 2002 Virginia Law Rev. 88 979 Even though education and property qualifications for voting have in the past been defended, is there any doubt that these restrictions would be subject to, and would fail, heightened scrutiny? < as lemmas |
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