Topic: Communism vs. capitalism
Quote: The founding fathers were afraid to trust the common people with the right to vote. They didn\'t want mob rule and chaos. "Most of the Founders believed that property ownership was essential to good citizenship and therefore that only property owners should be able to vote. \'Property\', in those days, also included slaves, of course, and half of the Founders were slave owners....The maintenance of power in the hands of the elite was further strengthened by who could vote. In 1787, there were about four million people living in the 13 original states. But only about four percent of them, it is estimated, could vote. Excluded were the one million slaves, the two million women, anyone under the age of 21, and all non-property owners."\nhttp://www.alternativesmagazine.com/22/lonsdale.html
Response: What is your point?
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