16. Not to mention -- originally, only white male landowners had the vote.
The Founders' fashioned a sytem of representative democracy (as opposed to direct democracy) that was grounded in the idea of rule by the elite. They DIDN'T envision entrusting the vote to the unwashed masses.
I'm NOT saying that I would in any way want a return to any sort of limited voting, just pointing out that our current system of universal (theoretical, at least) suffrage is a modern development, and not how our republic was originally designed.
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