There is nothing in the Constitution that would prevent limitations on the right to vote that are not specified in these amendments. The main body of the Constitution says nothing about citizen voting at all. Note that the property ownership limits of earlier years are not mentioned, although I would imagine that the poll tax amendment was long ago stretched by the courts to cover it. Heck, the age limitation is totally arbitrary, and nineteen would have been just a good a place to draw the line as 18, or 21, or 17.
The fact that I can't think offhand of a plausible and fair way to raise the bar for voting in this country--or at least to pick the bar up off the ground--doesn't mean that thinking about such a goal would not be a good idea.
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