Re:I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement (2009)
by taway_1212 on Saturday July 15, 2017 @03:38AM
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Democracy used to include only middle and upper class people (i.e. you had to have some wealth to be able to vote) and was only relatively recently extended to everyone.
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Re:I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement (2009)
by amygdyl on Saturday July 15, 2017 @04:05AM
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Exactly.
In my father's life, it was not allowed to vote unless you were the owner outright of property and women gained suffrage in his early years. My father lacked a birth certificate, and this prevented him from voting, until resolved. Imagine every child of a single parent family disenfranchised...