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To: BulletBobCo

The Founders also didn’t have women voting.

If they had, there probably would have been a “Consensus Council” in the Federal Government and a “Forum of Grievances” or some such structures. If you’re going to be honest with yourselves, you should be fully honest. They looked through history at governments of men, governing men to come up with what they did. I don’t know of any government on Earth that was designed around the direct participation of women, and to say that men and women are without difference and interchangeable is idiotic.

They also didn’t have men voting until they were half dead, too, for what it’s worth.


16 posted on 02/09/2020 5:34:20 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

The Founders only allowed taxpayers to vote; back in the day that was property owners. Here in NJ, women and blacks could vote from the start, providing they met the requirements; in 1807, it was rolled back to include only white men who paid taxes.


34 posted on 02/10/2020 3:00:45 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty
The Founders also didn’t have women voting.

They also didn't not have women voting. They left control of who was allowed to vote to the States. Which, it still is today, outside of two restrictions: States can't deny women in general, and they can't set an age restriction over 18.
Back in the day, most States limited eligibility to white, landed males over a certain age. Some places allowed women to vote if they owned land, this was just a rare occurrence as the only women who might have land would be a widow whose husband had no one else to leave the properties, or a daughter with no brothers or other male family for her dying dad to leave it to.
50 posted on 02/10/2020 6:41:59 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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