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To: pissant
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.

71 posted on 07/23/2010 3:35:57 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

I can tell your grasp of the 3/5ths rule is very poor.

No one said the founders were infallible. I could have just as easily mentioned the gay 90s (1890s, that is) or any other time prior to 1920.

I also, Mr. Strawman, never said it was a grave threat to the Republic.

And indeed, it is my opinion, just as it was the predominate opinion of large swaths of the population prior the women’s suffrage movement. They were all just a bunch of woman haters, I tell you.


72 posted on 07/23/2010 3:57:59 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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