“They didn’t want the poor, women, and children voting and for good reason,”
Everyone needs to stop pinning on the Founders what does not exist, especially in the Constitution.
There is NOTHING in the Founders’ Constitution about whom should vote. It was and is left to the states.
This is a myth that needs to die.
Women voted in NJ in the 1790s. Blacks voted in various places. Later, their franchises were abolished here.
They did not universally think women or blacks or poor, etc, should be disenfranchised.
The Founders didn’t put a right to vote in the Constitution for a REASON.
Its all of the Amendments since taking away States rights to dictate voting rights that are the problem.