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What a crock!!! Ever heard of the Magna Carta? It was drafted in 1215.....The founding fathers? The ones that said a slave was not a whole vote? Those guys? And I mean guys, because you know full well the women couldn't vote. I have no problem raising the bar a little.
Yes those founding fathers..
What they accomplished was a major step in the history of mankind. They acknowledged that every man would receive the same treatment under the law. Now you can debate that they didn't include women, blacks, indians...but keep in mind we are talking late 18th century.
In the 18th century the status quo was a strict caste structure with royalty having unique rights and privledges. The idea that an illiterate farm hand would recieve the same rights as a member of royalty was truly radical
British Royalty had more rights than field workers. Magna Carta put restrictions on the King but still mostly protected the nobles and the clergy