And any woman could post the same message.

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6. Not at all sure they "never intended" for women and nonwhites to vote.

Pull up a copy of the Constitution and do searches for "man," "woman," "male," "female," "she." You won't find them.

The term applied to all people is "person." In all contexts, example below.

Enslaved individuals also are "persons" and "other persons" as below -- differentiated from "free persons." You'll notice the term "Indian" is used, because Indian nations already had sovereign legal status.

There are no references to or exclusions based on gender or sexual differences or acts.

Preexisting colonial/state societies and their constitutions and laws had established the roles and inequalities of much older, traditional western cultures, and those were continued -- but not because of federal constitutional requirements.

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

Those who wrote our constitution were before their time, but looking to the future.