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Struggling with eighteenth-century political concepts to explore a new set of problems, Madison used these essays to explain how the US Constitution could restrain the unpropertied majority without creating a tyranny of the few.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Since then, the history of voting in our country has been one of a gradual expansion of rights: first to unpropertied white men, then to African-American men, and then, at last, to women.

From Time • Nov. 2, 2016

A German-born Jew, unpropertied, unelegant and unimposing, Henry Kissinger seemed ready to move toward the pantheon of national greats.

From Time Magazine Archive

Relationships between young men and women of his unpropertied class were fraught with restriction and inhibition.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The cheap labor which was eagerly sought by the corporations and large property owners was just as eagerly fought by the unpropertied wage-earners.

From Races and Immigrants in America by Commons, John R. (John Rogers)