RE: "Militia", what that meant then.
October 4, 2017 at 2:09 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2017 at 2:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Before the revolutionary war some* landed whites could vote for a range of elected officials up to and including their colonial governors. By 1780, many landed whites who previously could votye (say..white women) had this right stripped from them. Additionally, catholics, jews, an quakers were rarely given the right to vote regardless of whether or not they were taken to be white or landed. It was a state by state issue. The states attached a variety of qualifiers.
The right to vote wasn't actually in the constitution until it was amended in 1870..and many of the framers thought that nothing good could come of enfranchising more people.
Fun fact, the attitudes of the early american government and the previous colonial government just weren;t much different..mostly because those who were in government prior to the revolution found themselves in government -after- the revolution. Their experience was a valuable commodity.
The right to vote wasn't actually in the constitution until it was amended in 1870..and many of the framers thought that nothing good could come of enfranchising more people.
Fun fact, the attitudes of the early american government and the previous colonial government just weren;t much different..mostly because those who were in government prior to the revolution found themselves in government -after- the revolution. Their experience was a valuable commodity.
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