Picking up from last Friday: The Rest of Shameful Thing 8–Redistricting. Perhaps the most currently contentious legacy of the Philadelphia founders’ decision to leave the States in charge of how its voters select their federal—and, by default, state and local—representatives is periodic redistricting.
Read the Rest!8 Shameful Things Our Founders Believed–IV
Picking up from Friday: Shameful Things Six and Seven. 6. The people couldn’t be trusted to elect their state’s Senators.
Read the Rest!8 Shameful Things Our Founders Believed–III
Picking up from Monday: Shameful Thing Five. 5. Neither were women equal to men.
Read the Rest!8 Shameful Things our Founders Believed–II
Picking up from last Friday: Shameful Things 3 and 4: 3. Kidnapped Africans were property—bought, sold, and claimable—defined as “three-fifths” human, but only for census purposes.
Read the Rest!8 Shameful Things Our Founders Believed–I
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
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