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Rich, male and own property* if i remember correctly
And i don't think the romans were the first nor the last to enforce those kinds of limits, rich men who owned property have been huge fans of that system throughout the ages
Actually, white and male wasn't part of the requirements, In the roman system every family had a vote, along with every tribe (Rome saw them as family), now commonly the leader of the family was a man who served in the roman army, and most commonly white because of where the Romans were, but the southern Rome had a few black (what we would consider sub-Saharan Africans) and many Arab families (tribes), it was also not uncommon for the wife to become head of the family if the men were in the legion or dead