Posted on 10/07/2015 4:03:49 PM PDT by papertyger
The Same Reasoning, which will induce you to admit all Men, who have no Property, to vote, with those who have, for those Laws, which affect the Person will prove that you ought to admit Women and Children: for generally Speaking, Women and Children, have as good Judgment, and as independent Minds as those Men who are wholly destitute of Property: these last being to all Intents and Purposes as much dependent upon others, who will please to feed, cloath, and employ them, as Women are upon their Husbands, or Children on their Parents.
Depend upon it, sir, it is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State. It tends to confound and destroy all Distinctions, and prostrate all Ranks, to one common Level.
-John Adams
You are one of the smart ones
Perhaps, but married women find security in family, while single women find it in government.
Do single mothers not have "family?"
No, I think it's safe to say married women find security in *husbands.*
Semantics, since I had already specified: “IOW, single women vote for a “husband” who takes care of them and their children. Married women have human husbands.”
Then why the uncertainty of "perhaps?"
Admittedly, I did not connect this post with your post #37 which is much more emphatic.
I think a lot of single women vote for "Mr Government" without realizing why they are doing it. If they marry, then they quickly decide freedom (so their family can prosper) is more important. If they divorce, I suspect many go right back to relying on Mr Government.
Indeed. One could make a credible case for them going back to Mr Government for "hired muscle" *during* the divorce.
As a matter of fact, most of the amendments after the first 10, were mistakes.
And the 24th and 26th.
Frankly, I think all the Amendments became functionally obsolete with the Court awarding itself “judicial review” in Marbury v. Madison. The only thing limiting the Court now is the acceptance of it’s decisions by the populace.
A friend and I often argue about this very topic. He sees that decision as enabling never ending judicial overreach. My rebuttal is that the task of deciding whether or not a law is constitutional must be done, and if it is not done by the courts, would you rather have it done by the Executive?
Yes, they abuse the power, but I don't see the power being better used by a different branch.
I'm all for taking this power away from them, because Lord knows they have abused it mightily, but where should this power go if not the courts?
I'm all for taking this power away from them, because Lord knows they have abused it mightily, but where should this power go if not the courts?
I would think that requiring unanimous decisions instead of simple majorities would clear that problem up rather nicely. Where the courts can not reach unanimity, the issue devolves to the States.
I blame white Christian men for going wobbly and letting this happen
The same guys who slaughtered each other western theater of WWII
Them.
Their kids
Their grandkids
Their great grandkids gave it all away
Women and the destructiveness of their emotive reasoning were GIVEN that power
They sure as hell didn’t take it by force
And it started mostly by unmarried ugly women
Still is to a degree
The hand that rocks the cradle...
You’re damn right but I bet not more than ten percent of today’s women believe in that part of the Bible
They toss it in the submit to your husband dustbin
Several dozen people here know me personally and I’ll say it
I agree with you as does my wife and did my mother
Today’s women in the west equate loud and pushy with being strong ....think our favorite FOX NEWS Been In The Cat House
Strong women were their ancestry who lived in hard and ourdangerous times....like my tiny ginger backwoods grandma married mid teens and about died and went thru the 1910s and 1930s
Much less pioneer women or my female ancestry that had the pleasure of Federal occupation for a dozen years
Which btw let power go out for more than a month well revert back to the real world that doesn’t allow for such men and women are interchangeable fantasies
And women will become more pliant and seeking male protection
Baring those amazons the Pentagon swears are everywhere just aching for a chance
Most cogent part is at the bottom....lol...any man understands that highlighted part
Fo sho
Stick to your guns, kiddo!
May Almighty God Bless you with a fellow who will do so with you.
Divorce is one of the most emotionally, socially, personally, and economically destructive things in our culture.
I'd like to see the breakdown between unmarried (still single and childless) women and unmarried (divorced/"single moms") women. I think it, too, would show a difference, with the former group tending to be more conservative than the latter.
Bkmk
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