Residency Requirement Quotes
This is an excellent quotation to illustrate the limited voting franchise that existed in the early days of the nation. Note that this constitution, unlike those of Southern states would allow a Black to vote if he had the requisite assets. However, the poor could not vote regardless of race.
There was no welfare and no Social Security then. Sinclair’s idea and another by a Physician by the name of Townsend (see {36007} ) were the only two ideas in the table about old age pensions. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, noting the appeal of Sinclair and the Townsend plan pushed Social Security shortly thereafter and it became law in 1936. This quotation illustrates that losing candidates and their programs can have a very profound effect on public policy.