(No, it’s really not – the first mention of it is in the fifteenth amendment, and strict constructionists still can and do argue that the right does not rest at all with the people.)
Holy shit! This I did not know. What ever happened to: one man, one vote? Or does this come out of the British (admittedly 20th C) system of democracy?
I do know that at one time, here in Canada, one had to be male and own property to vote, and that women got the right to vote here in Quebec the latest in all the provinces (1945, I believe...off the cuff. I would have to go research in my books and I'm too stuffed up with sinus crap to feel like doing so. I'd have to put my brain into gear and I'm not doing that until I have to.). The one person (aka citizen) one vote is not something that gets argued against up here -- except with the pure-laine separatists, who would like the next referendum limited to themselves..so they would be assured of winning...and they get laughed at by the local French media more than by the English one!
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Holy shit! This I did not know. What ever happened to: one man, one vote? Or does this come out of the British (admittedly 20th C) system of democracy?
I do know that at one time, here in Canada, one had to be male and own property to vote, and that women got the right to vote here in Quebec the latest in all the provinces (1945, I believe...off the cuff. I would have to go research in my books and I'm too stuffed up with sinus crap to feel like doing so. I'd have to put my brain into gear and I'm not doing that until I have to.). The one person (aka citizen) one vote is not something that gets argued against up here -- except with the pure-laine separatists, who would like the next referendum limited to themselves..so they would be assured of winning...and they get laughed at by the local French media more than by the English one!
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