Sir, we can't fit the ventilator if you keep trying to talk
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We are the only country where that abolition could only be accomplished by a huge, bloody civil war though Do you think that's something praiseworthy about us
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Also the "common man" (i.e. white men with citizenship) explicitly did NOT have the right to vote Property qualifications for voting rights were common at the time of the Constitution, non-landowners didn't start voting in large numbers until the 1820s (Jacksonian democracy)
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I like how, in one sentence, it’s the Founders who gave freedom to the common man, and then in *the very next sentence* a war has to be fought 90 years later to grant that very same freedom that the Founders had refused to actually give.pic.twitter.com/NmHvcupgYb
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