Nov 29, 2017
One half of our brethren who fight and pay taxes, are excluded, like Helots, from the rights of representation, as if society were instituted for the soil, and not for the men inhabiting it; or one half of these could dispose of the rights and the will of the other half, without their consent.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Taylor, May 28, 1816
Jefferson was talking about property ownership requirements. But he was also a supporter of immigration, and immigrants inhabit the land, too.
