propertied

Example Sentences

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In an age of small government — and an age in which lawmakers and officials answered only to propertied White men — keeping an open book proved straightforward.

From Washington Post

Others liken the lawsuit to generational theft by the older, whiter baby boomers who dominate the propertied classes in college communities throughout California.

From New York Times

It doesn’t matter whether they are citizens or aliens; free, imprisoned or enslaved; enfranchised or disenfranchised; adults or children; propertied or propertyless.

From Washington Post

When America was founded, only white, propertied men could vote.

From BBC

In the first half of that century, it had transformed from a patrician society run by the propertied into a rough-and-tumble one in which nearly all white men could vote.

From New York Times