Madison replied that the state legislatures, which had made so much trouble with radical laws, were elected by freeholders.

麦迪逊回答说，曾因激进的法律惹出如此多麻烦的州立法机构是由自由持有人选举产生的。

Three, Virginia, Delaware, and Rhode Island, clung firmly to the ancient principles that only freeholders could be intrusted with electoral rights.

第三， 弗吉尼亚、特拉华和罗德岛，坚定地坚持只有自由人才能被授予选举权的古老原则。

This prevented the subdivision of estates and the growth of a large body of small farmers or freeholders owning their own land.

这阻止了庄园的细分和拥有自己土地的大量小农或自由人的成长。

It was a schoolmaster, Thomas Dorr, who led the popular uprising in Rhode Island which brought the exclusive rule by freeholders to an end.

校长托马斯·多尔 (Thomas Dorr) 领导了罗德岛的民众起义，结束了自由持有人的排他性统治。

In Virginia, the rural voter had to be a freeholder owning at least fifty acres of land, if there was no house on it, or twenty-five acres with a house twenty-five feet square.

在弗吉尼亚州，农村选民必须是拥有至少 50 英亩土地（如果上面没有房子）的自由人，或者 25 英亩土地上有 25 平方英尺的房子。

In Pennsylvania, the suffrage was granted to freeholders owning fifty acres or more of land well seated, twelve acres cleared, and to other persons worth at least fifty pounds in lawful money.

在宾夕法尼亚，选举权授予拥有 50 英亩或更多土地、12 英亩空地的自由持有人， 以及其他价值至少 50 英镑的合法货币的人。

A small freeholder in the neighbourhood had refused to sell the land which would have rounded off the estate of Skene, and a disease had attacked every animal on his farm so that he was ruined.

附近的一个小自由农拒绝出售本可以使斯科尼的庄园更圆满的土地，一场疾病袭击了他农场里的每只动物，以至于他被毁了。

The Whigs, who were composed mainly of the smaller freeholders, merchants, inhabitants of towns, and Protestant non-conformists, had grown haughty and overbearing through long continuance in power and had as a consequence raised up many enemies in their own ranks.

辉格党主要由较小的自由持有人、商人、城镇居民和新教的不守规矩者组成，由于长期执政，他们变得傲慢专横，结果在自己的队伍中树立了许多敌人。

In Massachusetts, the voter for member of the assembly under the charter of 1691 had to be a freeholder of an estate worth forty shillings a year at least or of other property to the value of forty pounds sterling.

在马萨诸塞州，根据 1691 年的宪章， 选举议员的选民必须是每年至少价值四十先令的不动产或其他价值不超过四十英镑的财产的自由持有人。