Citizen Role in Politics Practice Test

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

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

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

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

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.