I appose using things like race, sex, and age as a basis for the vote. I would have an easier time agreeing that all people deserve to vote equally if we still had the culture of service that once permeated the country. Bring back mandatory service and I don't have a problem.
Other wise why shouldn't just people that own real property, have a certain monetary value, or work in public service (military, police, teachers, nurses and doctors, I don't mean just military, this list is huge) be the people voting? You know the race thing doesn't fly with me man, hell one half of my family came here as indentured servants, they never owned a slave, the other half only came in the last century and weren't even in this country during that period of time. BTW, we're Irish Catholic, not the most popular people around over the years, play the racist thing someplace else. > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 11:16 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Maybe some people should not have the right to vote. > > >Voting was never intended to be a right that all adult > citizens enjoyed. > > > >It was supposed to be for educated land owners, heads of > household and > >so forth. > > > >People that actually had a stake in things. > > > > You also forgot that they had to be white, protestant and > male. Things have changed you know since certain ethnic > groups were counted as 2/3rds of a person. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:277660 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
