tegulator wrote:Most of those "ignant" citizens weren't able to vote (as many people in here wouldn't be able to either). They weren't educated, white, property-owning, males with the means to inform themselves. Thanks for helping me make my point. I fail to see any "selective memory" here. But continue on...
I'd be willing to state that there were more voracious and competent readers say in the states of MA, NY and VA COMBINED back then than there are now in present day Wayne county Michigan! Could everyone attend college back then? No. At least back then they would go into the "family" business, pioneer or some other...wait...I know...they were scalped that's it...scalped or plagued with disease. Scalped, plagues and famine. Maybe not in that order, but The Man did it to them and they're responsible. I shudder to think what a man like Thomas Jefferson would do with the Information Superhighway. A tour of Monticello shows the visitor what the man did with the tools at his disposal, oh wait...you're going to say the slaves did it all aren't you? Yes, the slavemaster Jefferson whipped them until he flayed the skin off their bones...yes he did...that's ALL he did...and in his spare time he crafted the Constitution. Why the crafty ol' Devil hisself...whatever. Seen your type trying to take the same stance in the classrooms. That dog don't hunt. What you have is the government and the history we ALL share. It's not pretty. There were wrongs committed and it took better men than Jefferson to right them; however they did it under the same government
he helped create. The blood this nation has shed to right the wrongs would fill an ocean, but you're expecting more? Is this nation so evil that you cannot live here anymore or are you the agent of change a divine entity divulged the wrongs and you're going to right them all? The aborted babies? Climate change? Over-population? Famine? Peace? What wrong did you forget because you're stuck with the "educated, white, property-owning, males with the means to inform themselves" types. You're forgetting it is an open ended process that this Grand Experiment really is.
The people read more then they do now. They didn't have tv...radio...telegraph...telephones...they had newspapers. It took days and weeks to reach the people. In most cases they'd read the entire thing front to back multiple times. You choose to make this some racial bender by interjecting the quote above. The ONLY point you made is that you want to racebait like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson!
Then again, after reading The Federalist Papers...link provided, you're welcome...
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html
You'd be able to deduce that you don't have to be a rocket surgeon to figure it all out. It's cliff note format is pretty basic. STILL can't figure it out? Well, back then you were encouraged to engage in conversation. Unless you're yoked by the neck and aren't "educated, white, property-owning, males with the means to inform themselves" ignant. You're stuck in the mud with the "educated, white, property-owning, males with the means to inform themselves" not willing to do anything for yourself. C'mon...you're better than that...aren't you?