I had an Aunt, reserved woman, but honest. She was the first woman born in the entire family to be born with the right to vote. She managed to chisel herself a career in civil service for her entire adult life, never married, through all the rather distasteful attitudes she’d deal with on a daily basis.
Even she kept a copy of the constitution in her purse, a document that forbade her own mother from being able to vote well into adulthood.
Way I see it, our nation as such beautifully unceasing promise behind it, and they’re damn afraid of that fact.
Even she kept a copy of the constitution in her purse, a document that forbade her own mother from being able to vote well into adulthood.
Well it never forbade her. It was left to the states to decide who got to vote. That was the fault of the constitution, it gave too much power to the states for federal affairs.
I had an Aunt, reserved woman, but honest. She was the first woman born in the entire family to be born with the right to vote. She managed to chisel herself a career in civil service for her entire adult life, never married, through all the rather distasteful attitudes she’d deal with on a daily basis.
Even she kept a copy of the constitution in her purse, a document that forbade her own mother from being able to vote well into adulthood.
Way I see it, our nation as such beautifully unceasing promise behind it, and they’re damn afraid of that fact.
Well it never forbade her. It was left to the states to decide who got to vote. That was the fault of the constitution, it gave too much power to the states for federal affairs.