“Depend upon it, sir, it is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State. It tends to confound and destroy all Distinctions, and prostrate all Ranks, to one common Levell.”

John Adams

~ John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
John Adams to James Sullivan, 26 May 1776, Papers 4:208--12
https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch13s10.html