When the country was founded, who were the only people who could participate in government?

People can take part in many ways in politics. You may either write or work for a candidate or political party as your representative or senator. They can make presentations or call the police to complain about the neighbor's dog to their local school board or community council. Partly because of our federalism, citizens at federal, municipal and local levels have many opportunities to engage in our democracy.

Explanation:

Researchers also found that many social and economic attributes have been closely related to high POLITICAL PARTICIPATION levels:  

1.Education

A politically engaged person only has a high standard of education at its most critical characteristic. In general, the more an person is trained, the more likely they are to vote.                                              

2.Age

While the 18-24-year-olds were forced to require 18 to vote at the beginning of the 1970's, they have also maintained the lowest voting rate. In recent years the elderly of their brothers and sisters (ages from 25–34 don't do any better, the most eligible voters in these classes are aged 45 to 45 years old.

3.Groups of race and ethnicity.

If only race and ethnicity are taken into consideration, white people have greater VOTING rates than blacks and latin women. But this pattern is rather disappointing. Some research that track revenues and education have shown that the voting rates for White, Black and Latinos are roughly the same.

4. Sexuality.

Females had been under-represented at the voting stands for many years, but these were at least the same proportion as men in recent elections. Yes, women were significantly higher than men in 1992 and 1996.

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