What amendment gives us the right to vote?
Have you read the 9th? "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." What that means is... nobody can write down on a piece of paper what all your rights are. The intention of the bill of rights is not to "Provide rights to you" Its saying "These are rights that this government can never take away from you". Rights don't come from government laws! A law is the anti-right! You have more rights than the constitution or any other piece of paper can list. These rights of yours come from your property. (You can do what you want with what you own.) Since you own your body.. you have a right to select a leader for yourself if you so choose.
Do you think men should have the right to vote on women's issues? Why/Why not?
The rationale for this question leads us to this logical conclusion: no one should be allowed to vote on “issues” that don’t affect their “group”, only “within group” people should be allowed to vote on issues that appear to solely affect their “identity group(s)”. But, let’s get real, this question is really about abortion, isn’t it, and saying men should have no say at all when it comes to abortion.Men should not be allowed to vote on “women’s issues” ONLY if women are not allowed to vote on “men’s issues”, that is the only fair, just, and equal thing to have happen in the US.That means women should not be allowed to vote on any paternity issue, since maternity is a women’s issue, some feel men should not be allowed to vote on. Using this rationale, only men should be able to vote on their paternal rights and paternal custody rights and laws. After all, the “lump of fetal tissue”, once expelled and allowed to live by the owner of the uterus, is genetically/biologically 1/2 the father.Women should not be able to vote on whether or not to have the right to decide for a living male expelled “lump of fetal tissue”, if it gets circumcised. Men should be the only ones allowed to vote on that “male issue”, since this is clearly a male issue that women should have no say over.Men’s reproductive rights must be considered completely equal to the female’s reproductive rights.Therefore, only men can vote when it comes to demanding the government pay for a surrogate to carry their “lump of fetal tissue” if they are unable to find a uterus owning partner, so they have equal rights to women to have an expelled living “fetal tissue” of their own.Just as women, in this scenario should be the only ones to vote on whether or not the government pays for their reproductive right to remove a “lump of fetal tissue”, if they don’t want it to live.My answer is:No one should be excluded from the right to vote on any issue that affects citizens of ones nation/state/locality.Where do we stop?Black people can’t vote on “white issues”,or gay people can’t vote on “heterosexual issues”,white people can’t vote on “people of color issues”,law abiding citizens can’t vote on “criminal issues”.Well, liberalism’s guiding ideology is deeply steeped in separating/dividing people into groups; which liberals say are not able to fully understand groups they do not identify with. It just may come to the above in the US if liberals are fully in control, “imaginary deity above” help us all.
Why did it take 70 years for women to have the right to vote?
Women were never considered equal to men. That doesn't mean they weren't respected. They were respected in the roles society chose for them: being good wives, and good mothers. Or they were accepted as teachers or librarians.They were never considered bright enough to understand the "complicated" matters of politics, law, or government. They certainly were never considered adequate enough to vote!It took 70 years to gain support from each State and the votes needed to pass an amendment to the Constitution.The 19th Amendment was passed by Congress in 1919. It was ratified in 1920.@Women\'s Right to Vote
In which country do women not have the right to vote?
There are six locations around the world where women are not allowed to vote. In two of these nations, no one is allowed to vote, because the country does not currently have an electoral system. One of these countries is expected to extend the right to vote to all citizens by 2010, and presumably the vote will also include women. In two of these nations, suffrage is partial: women are technically allowed to vote, but find it difficult in practice. In the remaining two, women's suffrage has not yet been achieved, and may never be. The two nations in which women are not allowed to vote because of the lack of an electoral system are Brunei and the United Arab Emirates. Brunei is a sultanate, and has no elected officials, although government cabinets do advise the Sultan of Brunei. In the United Arab Emirates, changes to the way in which the country is run are beginning to occur: a limited number of citizens cast ballots in 2006, and voting rights are expected to cover all citizens by 2010. The United Arab Emirates has stated on numerous occasions that women will be given the right to vote along with all other citizens, and several women ran for office in the 2006 elections. The two nations with partial suffrage are Bhutan and Lebanon. In both of these countries, women are not allowed to vote by convention, rather than law. In Bhutan, each household is permitted only one vote: because of traditional values, this vote is usually placed by the male of the household. This is expected to change soon with the introduction of a parliamentary democracy. In Lebanon, women must have proof of education at least at the elementary level, while men have no education requirements. The technique of using education and language to deny the vote has been used in other nations, including the United States, to disenfranchise part of a population legally. In Saudi Arabia and Vatican City, women are not allowed to vote by law. The only elections held in Vatican City are papal conclaves, which traditionally include a body of all-male Cardinals. If the Catholic Church ever allows women to be Cardinals, presumably they will participate in these conclaves as well, creating the possibility of a female Pope. In Saudi Arabia, women's rights are severely restricted. Elections were held in Saudi Arabia in 2005 for the first time in 60 years, but women were not included in the proceedings.
Does the concept of the "African-American vote” in American politics empower or unnecessarily totalize African-American voters?
I don't believe that it empowers African-American voters. But it definitely totalizes us. It creates a fictitious voting bloc that allegedly all vote the same way every time. We are treated as if we all have a singular mind like The Borg on Star Trek. It drives me crazy, as a Black conservative (fiscal conservative, socially liberal on certain issues), to be pigeonholed into this fantasyland. I feel that it's a very lazy way for the media and political parties to not have to dig deeper into the different types of African-American voters all along the political spectrum. But I believe African-Americans historically have always tended to be lazily lumped together in this monolithic fiction.What this means for African-Americans is that politicians of all stripes have little to nothing to offer that's new. They usually believe that the African-American voter still has the same wants and needs since the days of MLK. So the politicans continue to take old policy and slap new paint on it. Also, African-American voters outside of that "voting bloc" tend to be ignored or viewed like a unicorn or Big Foot by the parties. Basically, they don't "exist" in large enough numbers to matter or cater to politically. When people are unnecessarily totalized, the complete diversity and complexity of the people is lost and commodified to generic simplified characteristics. In my opinion, this means that African-American policy focuses largely on the bottom 1/3 and mostly excludes the other 2/3.
How come more black people don't vote Republican?
crabs in a barrel they dont want to be beaten up by black panthers or called uncle toms