Censitário
Censitário is a Portuguese term used to describe systems, practices, or people related to the census, especially in the context of political rights and electoral rules. In political science, the word is commonly associated with census-based suffrage, or suffrage censitário, where the right to vote is limited to individuals who meet criteria derived from a census, such as property ownership, tax status, or income.
Historically, censitary suffrage was a feature of many 19th-century constitutional regimes and persisted in various places
In practice, the census acted as the gatekeeper of political participation: eligibility was defined by quantifiable
Etymology and usage: the term derives from censo, meaning census, with the adjectival form censitário used to