Citizen Role in Politics Practice Test

He thought then that those who owned land had more knowledge of how to successfully manage structures and institutions.

He wanted to solidify power in the hands of himself and his friends.

He felt that a man who was fully dependent on another, an employee, could then be economically coerced into voting contrary to his own conscience.

He considered it rude to allow poorer classes in the same voting places as richer people.

He thought that those who did not own land were morally inferior to those who did and thus did not deserve a vote.