[pissant]

Pick one side of the argument, not both: either an example of an Amendment gone bad shows that the 19th is bad also, or it is not. If it is not, then why did you bring Amendments gone bad in the first place?

Only YOU are making the leap of logic that other amendments gone bad (AGB) demonstrates that therefore, the 19th is bad also. I said twice now there IS NO 'IF THEN THEREFORE' relationship.

The reason I brought up AGB in the first place was to note that just having the amendment process - "they allowed for amendments" - is worthless as a debate point. Amendments can and have been used for good or ill. If my calling out the 16th and 18th as examples of AGB confused you into inferring I meant 'because those are bad, therefore this means the 19A is also bad', that's your problem. And utterly illogical. They stand alone, each as an example of an AGB.

[1rudeboy]

If the Founders felt that they were infallible, then they would not have allowed for the amendment process. Short of you providing something from the Federalist Papers, or some other contemporaneous publication, that the Founders felt that giving women the right to vote is a grave threat to our Republic, then your opinion that giving women the right to vote is just that, your opinion. Don't hide behind the Founders.

If we applied your standard equally, then we'd still be debating that Representatives (and taxes) should be apportioned according to a formula that counts some persons as three-fifths of a human being.