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A Long Way, Baby!
6:41PM ON
07/18/2008
BY
Jessica Ramsey
I never get tired of bitching about the editorial board.
From today’s ProJo, an op-ed on the Electoral College:
“Before citizens jump on the bandwagon [of the dissolution of the Electoral College], they would be wise to consider what the Founders were trying to do in creating what has turned out to be the most successful federal, not unitary, republic in history.
They worked hard to devise a government that would tend to protect the liberties of minorities (except tragically, most notably, the African-American population for many years).”
Yeah, that whole slavery thing with the 3/5 compromise was a low point. And then there were the Jim Crow laws even after the Fifteenth Amendment. Guess all that counts as a little longer than “many years.”
Wait, I know there was some other large group of U.S. citizens barred from voting for “many years.” What part of the population was it again? Wait…. wait… don’t tell me… I think it might have changed in the last 90 years… Help me out…
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