<That's easy for you to say, now that there's an all-volunteer military. When I turned 18 and got my draft lottery number, my only choice would have been to present myself for induction to serve in a war in which I honestly did not believe, or flee my country. Nobody consulted me. How does that differ from slavery? You'd have been a slave back then, and you might better appreciate emancipation through universal sufferage.

the draft can come back at any time. I still had to sign up for the draft when I turned 18.

No! And you're fundamentally misunderstanding the relationship between freedom and free enterprise. Free people improve themselves; the disenfranchised and enslaved don't.

if thatt were true, then women would never have marched to get thier right ot vote.

Read Adam Smith, dammit.

I can't! its proping up the middle of my desk!

seriously though, tell me the chapter you are refering to. . . guess I could get that thick bible over there to put in its place. . .

After women were given the vote, their educational level improved steadily thereafter. You're reversing cause and effect when you say that they needed to be educated first before they could vote. Their exercize of political power made it unconscionable to not extend the benefits of education to women. Because only the vote finally made them full citizens entitled to an education. It could not have happened the other way around.

both education and the right to vote wer brought upon by a socail movement. The war (WWI) effort that got women off being barefoot and pregnant doign housechores and into the workforce was this movement.
Ideally the education would come first.

but this satisfyle my actual personal values that tthe right to vote be only granted to the determined. If only everyone were required to march on washington every few years I would be happy.

Interesting. If I were the guy who could set the slope of the discount curve, I would wield vast political power as the tip of the curve whipped around franchising and disenfranchising large blocs of political power as I controlled the ratio of wealth to power.

or you would be doing this by gerrymandering disctiricts. . . there are always littel things like that universal sufrage or not.

Universal democracy is a lot simpler.

Monarchy is pretty darn simple to, simple doesn't make it better.

-Justin Kelly