The Right to Vote
You don’t have an affirmative Constitutional right to vote. (Did you know that?)
The right to vote was not (affirmatively) included in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or any other Amendments.
If you want to know why, and what that means, see The Right to Vote.
An election year seems like a good time to think about voting rights and why we currently have a mess.
https://terikanefield.com/the-right-to-vote/
“The rationale for not including women was the widespread belief that women were incapable of the kind of rational thinking necessary to understand politics and government. (In other words, these rich guys thought that women and poor people were too easily manipulated by men like them, so poor people and women should not be allowed to vote.)”
Yep, that’s it right there. Good piece, Teri.
Wasn’t there a SCOTUS case in late 19th/early 20th century that decided “citizenship” does NOT = voting?