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To: Levy78

Did any country in the world allow women to vote in 1776?

I don’t think the founding fathers prevented women from voting as such , so much as in that era , women didn’t have the same rights as men.


74 posted on 08/09/2023 2:12:59 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

‘I don’t think the founding fathers prevented women from voting as such , so much as in that era , women didn’t have the same rights as men.’

in 1776, approximately 60 percent of whte men could vote; this was greatly expanded in the next decade, when property requirements were being dropped, and a few states extended the right to free black men, and NJ allowed property owning widows to vote...


99 posted on 08/09/2023 2:56:30 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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