[Ol' Sparky]

Claiming women were treated like chattel when the country began is Marxist/leftist/feminist lie that any member here should be ashamed to have spewed.

yet they remained disenfranchised until the early 20th century

How were they "disenfranchised"? Because voting was done by household and the male head of the household did the voting?

Face it, your nonsense is the same sort of propaganda that NOW spews.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Well, since I'm just a NOW implant, maybe we should ask ask John Adams about extending suffrage to everyone. John, would any good come of extending suffrage from what it is now?

Depend upon it, Sir, it is dangerous to open so fruitful a source of controversy and altercation as would be opened by attempting to alter the qualifications of voters; there will be no end to it. New claims will arise; women will demand the 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.

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