re: #274 Obdicut

Except that’s not true at all. First of all, many of our founding fathers thought the landed, educated citizenry should be the only ones with the power to vote.

SEcond of all, the founding fathers felt that women should not have the right to vote (Except John Adams, I believe), because they were intellectual, spiritual, and ethical inferiors to men.

Third, only six states allowed blacks to vote.

Fourth, voting rights were still, in most states, tied to land ownership until the 1830’s.

Bullshit. The founding principal was rule by the people and not by elites. That certain groups were not included in this basic right and that there was an evolutionary process does not make this “not true at all.”