Poetic Justice wrote:
> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>> In sci.environment, Poetic Justice
>
>> Bear also in mind that the Constitution was originally
>> designed to only give landowners the franchise. I'd have
>> to look as to how exactly non-landowners got it, though.
>> (Of course the Amendments, Amendment 20 in particular,
>> make adjustments; women can now vote, and I'd call that
>> fair, or at least advantageous to them.)
>>
>
> I'm not convinced. How did we get prohibition? Then look at
> prohibition's contribution to the Great Depression.
>
"It was only after Utah women exercised their suffrage rights in favor
of polygamy that the U.S. Congress disenfranchised Utah women.[15] By
the end of the nineteenth century, *Idaho Colorado Utah and Wyoming* had
enfranchised women after effort by the suffrage associations at the
state level.
PROHIBITION passed Congress over President Woodrow Wilson's veto on
October 28, 1919 and established the legal definition of intoxicating
liquor.[2] as well as providing for enforcement of Prohibition. The 18th
Amendment was certified as ratified on January 29, 1919, having been
approved by 36 states, and went into effect on a Federal level on
January 29, 1920. *Some state legislatures* had already enacted
statewide prohibition prior to the ratification of the Eighteenth
Amendment.
As Prohibition became increasingly unpopular during the Great
Depression, especially in large cities, "Repeal" was eagerly
anticipated. On March 23, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signed into
law an amendment to the Volstead Act known as the Cullen-Harrison Act,
allowing the manufacture and sale of certain kinds of alcoholic
beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed with ratification of
the Twenty-first Amendment, on December 5, 1933.
*National* women’s suffrage, however, did not exist until 1920. During
the beginning of the twentieth century, as women's suffrage gained in
popularity, suffragists were subject to arrests and many were jailed.
Finally, President Woodrow Wilson urged Congress to pass what became,
when it was ratified in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment."
.... and while the men were away at war in WWI the women pushed to ban
alcohol, that was *Prohibition* , then prohibition created a huge
criminal class and filled prisons on top of other problems? That plunged
the U.S. into the Great Depression and the depression kept getting worse
until Prohibition was repealed?
Given the result of the women in politics..... it may not have helped
women, or anyone else.
Given the results... Maybe the original plan was right and only male
land owners should vote.
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