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Former Trump lawyer: ‘The Constitution is not adequate to deal with a president as evil as Trump’ (www.ms.now)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/trump_watch@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

I wouldn't call them features designed to have "educated" or "responsible" or responsible people vote.

It was a system designed to allow male land owners to have all the say. To keep the wealthy in charge. In many states it was limited to wealthy white land owners.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Yeah, pretty much.

    "Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."

    (Barbarous ancestors meaning Jefferson and his friends)

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