That was not their vision. They left setting voting qualifications to the states and requirements varied. In NJ women could vote if they owned property, freed slaves could vote in four states, NH abolished the property requirement in 1792. Most states did limit voting to male property owners, but the point is that any state could allow anybody to vote they chose to. They specifically rejected having federal voting standards. The national requirement to be a citizen to vote in federal elections did not occur until 1995.
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