For both Locke and Montesquieu, private property was more fundamental than any political “right,” and this required prudential limitations on who could vote.
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Modern historians often portray post-Civil War “Reconstruction” as a time when well-meaning Republicans tried to aid newly-freed slaves who were being oppressed by their former masters. Using revisionist history, Wanjiru Njoya comes up with different, more realistic, accounts.