A Republic No More?; Cali Cars; & Britain's New P.M.
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In his weekly Editor’s Column, Michael Walsh looked at the Left’s longstanding attempt to transform “our Republic” into “their Democracy.” The Worst Form of Government As monarchy gradually made way for various forms of republicanism, at no time was a plebiscitary democracy—a society in which every man, woman, and child got a vote—ever envisaged. There was no enumerated "right" to vote in the Constitution; the qualifications were largely left up to the states, which set minimum ages for voting in their own elections. Early on, for example, the original 13 colonies each had some sort of property qualification for male voters, and by the time the national constitution was ratified in 1789, free black men of property could vote in some jurisdictions. But as the Civil War loomed, and Southern Democrat animosity toward Africans hardened, black men had been stripped of voting privileges, and only got them back with the passage of the
A Republic No More?; Cali Cars; & Britain's New P.M.
A Republic No More?; Cali Cars; & Britain's…
A Republic No More?; Cali Cars; & Britain's New P.M.
In his weekly Editor’s Column, Michael Walsh looked at the Left’s longstanding attempt to transform “our Republic” into “their Democracy.” The Worst Form of Government As monarchy gradually made way for various forms of republicanism, at no time was a plebiscitary democracy—a society in which every man, woman, and child got a vote—ever envisaged. There was no enumerated "right" to vote in the Constitution; the qualifications were largely left up to the states, which set minimum ages for voting in their own elections. Early on, for example, the original 13 colonies each had some sort of property qualification for male voters, and by the time the national constitution was ratified in 1789, free black men of property could vote in some jurisdictions. But as the Civil War loomed, and Southern Democrat animosity toward Africans hardened, black men had been stripped of voting privileges, and only got them back with the passage of the