propertied man

The right to vote for these positions was not universal, however, being limited to propertied men.

Propertied men voted; in no colonies was there universal suffrage.

The poorest of the propertied men of the city comprised the fifth class.

Several of the leading Irish merchants and propertied men were Protestants and brought the traditions of the Orange Order to their new home.

But Head Count soldiers turned out to be even braver than the old propertied men, and now Rome's legions are exclusively composed of the Head Count.

Amar paints an approving picture of the Constitution as radically populist, emphasizing the ways in which the ratification process was opened to lower-born, less propertied men (among other democratic innovations).

When I asked them for Italian Head Count-since they insist they've no propertied men left of an age for service-they said they had no Head Count either!"

Even this latter entitlement was relatively recent, for until Gaius Marius had thrown the legions open to men who had no property, Rome's armies had consisted solely of propertied men.

A disastrous series of Roman defeats had drastically reduced the number of propertied men who made up Rome's soldiers, so over the next few years Marius began to enlist the propertyless Head Count as soldiers.

In an old-style army composed of propertied men, even ranker soldiers had marched with their effects loaded onto a mule, a donkey, or a slave; those who could not afford the outlay hired carrying space from those who could.

One subject frequently found in Sand's work (for example in "Lelia" and "Indiana") - the attitudes of propertied men toward marriage and women as appropriate grounds for male exploitation - is only backdrop in this novel, although social pressures are as intricately woven into its fabric as are the joys of nature.

Before Gaius Marius's army reforms, a citizen had to possess sufficient property to buy his own arms, armor, gear, and provisions if he was to serve in the legions; after Gaius Marius, legions contained both propertied men and men of the capite censi, the Head Count.