Jackson50 on 17 March 2009
| The Ghost of RubangB said: Our founding fathers founded a country that relied entirely on the slave trade, before the Industrial Revolution, and their idea of compromise was to settle on black people being 3 fifths of a person so the votes of slave owners are worth more than people without slaves. I like the idea behind their system of amendments they set up so we could fix all their horrible mistakes, but it took a really long time just to fix the 3 fifths of a person issue. All men are created equal except for slaves, and it took over 150 years for women to be able to vote. So if you're gonna pull any hypothetical founding father time travel scenarios, you need to realize that all our founding fathers were slave-owning womanizing drunks, they'd all get AIDS on day one, and try to throw the whole internet in jail or some crazy shit. |
Well, that depends on which date you begin counting from. If you choose July 4, 1776, as the first date, then it would have taken 144 years (19th Amendment was ratified in 1920) for women to secure the right to vote. Also, some states had granted women's suffrage as early as the 1890s. 
