Glenn Greenwald tells the truth, and makes many uncomfortable

[AverageJoe90]

223. Not really; that actually oversimplifies things.

BTW, I do realize that there were a few who may have actually advocated restricting the franchise(such as James Madison), but from all I've read over the years, it was generally agreed by the majority that voting rights should be available for all free citizen men(and notice, too, how there were no Federal attempts to force states that already had universal male suffrage to revoke that!).

Of course, it can be admitted that the political realities of the day definitely got in the way of the original intent of the Constitution, something that was not fully rectified until the 1860s.....similar, in a way, to how the Civil Rights bills were unable to entirely end institutionalized discrimination.....but we cannot forget how it was intended to be; Lincoln knew this, and so did many others who fought the righteous fight to save the Union.