1. Voting Rights Tied to Property Ownership

• Figures like John Adams explicitly argued that men without property lacked the "independency" needed to vote responsibly, claiming they would be easily manipulated or would vote to redistribute wealth.

2. Institutional Barriers to Direct Democracy

• Electoral College: Placed a buffer between the popular vote and the presidency.
• Unelected Senate: Senators were originally chosen by state legislatures rather than citizens (until the 17th Amendment in 1913).
• Life-Appointed Judiciary: Ensured elite legal interpretation remained insulated from public pressure.

3. Preserving Slavery and the Native Land Ladder

• The Three-Fifths Compromise: Boosted the political power of Southern slave-holding states without granting any rights to enslaved people.
• Fugitive Slave Clause: Protected human property rights across state lines.
• Land Speculation: Key figures like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were active land speculators who used state power and military force to dispossess Native American nations, securing prime real estate for wealthy investors.

4. Economic Policies Favoring Capital Creditors

• Under Alexander Hamilton’s financial system, the Federal government assumed state revolutionary war debts and established the First Bank of the United States.
• The Debt Buyout: Poor revolutionary soldiers who had been paid in government IOUs often sold them for pennies on the dollar to wealthy speculators out of desperation. Hamilton’s plan paid out those bonds at full face value to the speculators, cementing a wealthy financial class tied directly to the federal government.
• Suppressing Populist Rebellions: When small farmers protested taxes that favored coastal merchants (such as during Shays' Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion), the federal government deployed military force to enforce compliance.

5. Naturalization and Citizenship Laws

• The Naturalization Act of 1790 set the baseline for who could climb the legal and civic ladder in the new nation.
• Explicit Exclusion: It restricted citizenship by naturalization strictly to "free white person[s]... of good character," excluding enslaved Africans, free Black people, Native Americans, and later Asian immigrants from accessing land ownership and legal protections.

You may have some things even more wrong with you than just being a tool if you let someone on the internet control your behavior that much. It’s your money and conscious, not mine so it leaves me feeling nothing but apathy. I’ll just go on about my day like I normally do while you can sit and seethe or whatever.