re: #433 wozzablog

The landed gentry were the elites, and they were pretty much the only people with the franchise…

The founding fathers said that all men were created equal - but not all were equal enough to vote.

Of the people, by the people & for the people was 1860’s talk… not the founding fathers.

Its just semantics to go on and on about the meaning of the word “elite.” Not allowing children to vote is a sort of elitism as is not allowing fish to vote.

The obvious point being the very essence of the American revolution and resulting freedoms and rights were very much a rejection of rule by aristocratic elites.