DBQ 7: Jacksonian Democracy During Jackson's presidency, suffrage rights were limited to white males who owned property and were wealthy. With Jackson's presidency a new type of democracy was proposed. This was a democracy that extended the right of suffrage to all white males regardless of their social/economic status. However, this new and extreme proposal for its time brought political disagreement over whether the extension of suffrage was adequate and beneficial to American society. Suffrage was expanded because people were all created equal and all contribute to society regardless of their wealth and property. Many were in favor of extending the right of suffrage, although many were against it. Among the arguments in favor of extending suffrage, such as it would be for the common good, the strongest argument was that a person's virtue and morality should determine eligibility to vote rather than ownership of property, while the poorer arguments against extending suffrage were that it would jeopardize the property and rights of minorities, free debtors from prison, and embolden evil politicians. Suffrage should be extended to other white males regardless of their wealth and property. According to Nathan Sanford, chairman of the New York State Convention Committee, an individual's virtue and morality are more important than wealth and property. Nathan adds that virtue and morality should be qualifications for voting. According to him those who "contribute to the public support" qualify to have the right of suffrage and, more importantly, this includes the majority of the white male population. According to him, this plan of extending the right of suffrage is safe and beneficial to the whole society. .... half of the paper ...... was more important than personal esteem, and truly good statesmen like John Quincy Adams were eliminated by the majority, “both drunk and sober” (Docs. 3 and 4). However, l he idea of ​​extending the right to suffrage still makes much more sense than the arguments given by opponents because equality is truly represented by giving the right to vote to individuals regardless of their economic status. One of the problems that caused the American Revolution was taxation without representation. However, if the United States did not allow all white men to vote, it would mean that the United States would be no better than the English, even if the election results excluded such individuals as John Quincy Adams, the election is still more beneficial to society because it represents the sincere and open vote of all able-bodied white males.