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According to the founders - blacks couldn't even be citizens.
"Of this there can be no doubt. At the time of the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, all free native-born inhabitants of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina, though descended from African slaves, were not only citizens of those States, but such of them as had the other necessary qualifications possessed the franchise of electors, on equal terms with other citizens."
"Of this there can be no doubt. At the time of the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, all free native-born inhabitants of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina, though descended from African slaves, were not only citizens of those States, but such of them as had the other necessary qualifications possessed the franchise of electors, on equal terms with other citizens."
"Of this there can be no doubt. At the time of the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, all free native-born inhabitants of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina, though descended from African slaves, were not only citizens of those States, but such of them as had the other necessary qualifications possessed the franchise of electors, on equal terms with other citizens."
Wow. A small subset of blacks in 5 of the 13 states were considered citizens - but still faced additional hurdles or had no right to vote: New York, by its Constitution of 1820, required colored persons to have some qualifications as prerequisites for voting, which white persons need not possess. And New Jersey, by its present Constitution, restricts the right to vote to white male citizens.
Anyone can put an announcement in the paper as my parents did when my children were born (I lived in another state). They wanted my friends in my hometown to know I had a baby and they wanted people to know they were new grandparents.
If you speak for the liberal base, God help your party come 2012!
Relax, the truth is out there, and it will come sooner than you or any other liberal hopes for. The day of reckoning is near.
You guys on the right sure like to make prophetic doomsday type statements like-'The day of reckoning is near.' We shall see what happens in November- whatever the outcome of that election it surely will not be 'the day of reckoning' talk about rightist drama-
You doubters just shut up. Barack Hussein Obama was clearly born in Kenya and is not fit to be our president as he is not a US citizen. His wifey even admitted so.. mmmkkk..
You guys on the right sure like to make prophetic doomsday type statements like-'The day of reckoning is near.' We shall see what happens in November- whatever the outcome of that election it surely will not be 'the day of reckoning' talk about rightist drama-
I am a Libertarian, and believe that both the Republican and Democratic party are hellbent on destroying our great country. That being said, Obama is the worst thing that could have happened to America in the wake of the Bush era.
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