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To: the OlLine Rebel

So, you’re telling me that the founders intended them to vote, but they just never got around to letting them do so?


167 posted on 11/08/2012 6:11:28 AM PST by SoCalTransplant (Hoping I get Romnesia, so that I can forget the the past 4 years ever happened.)
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To: SoCalTransplant

In NJ women were allowed to vote from the earliest time. Then around 1810 some man who kept losing because he thought women were voting against him managed to drum up support that they would lose the franchise by 1820.

It’s true.

Despite the standard history in school which teaches that “women got the right to vote in 1920” even while they teach us that somehow, “the 1st place to allow women to vote was Wyoming” (false) c.1870.

So yes, the very founding generation was allowing non-property-owning-white-males to vote. It just wasn’t universal.


175 posted on 11/08/2012 1:27:12 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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