🚀 go-pugleaf

Stuart Mennitt (smennitt@oasys.dt.navy.mil) wrote:
: In dc.talk.guns, donb@netcom.com (Don Baldwin) writes:

: >Still, for all its flaws  in the areas of sexism and racism, I'd say
: >that it is the best such document the world has come up with to date.

:     Marcus mentioned the Constitution was changed to allow blacks to
: be citizens to grant women the right to vote.  Did the Constitution
: originally and specifically prohibit these?  Did the appropriate ammendments
: contradict a prior section of the constitution,  or did they clarify
: a vague area?  I'm obviously no expert here.  It seems most ammendments
: have served to increase personal freedom, not vice-versa.

	they were added because the original document only specified men
as far as voting goes.  As for rights of citizenship it was something that 
the individual states granted, not the federal govt.  Of course many
things that the state governments did were assumed (forcibly taken over)
by the federal gov. during the civil war - WW1 period.  In fact the only
group that is explicitly given the right to citizenship in the
constitution are negros.  

	My memory is an unreliable transport mechanism...
Dale Farmer