So before the 13th and 19th amendments were passed, would you have opposed women's suffrage or a ban on slavery?
slavery is an abomination, and most of founders wanted it abolished.
voting was a privilege, based on taxes and land ownership, the founders wanted people who had a stake in America to vote, they knew if you were to give people who had nothing at stake the vote, they would use their vote to take from those who have property.
regulation of voting was in state hands, not the federal government, most women of that time, did not have property landownership, and because of the regulations did not vote.
even in the 20th century, i still remember when my mother could not get a car though a bank because she was a woman.
So tyranny in the hands of the people is worse than tyranny out of the hands of the people? Just because a government does not grant power to the people does not mean it cannot be a tyrannical government.
but the people have power, in the house, that is their power base, the senate is the power base of the states, and the president represents the
union as a whole.
the people are not given all direct power of officials election in our federal government because that would make it a democracy, rule of the people.
the founders wanted NO ENTITY, not the people, not the states, not the president, to be a dominate factor in our government.........all 3 are to be elected by separate methods......the house by the people, the senate by the state legislatures, and the president by electors of the electoral college.......this separates power, keeping it out of one entity, and prevents tyranny.
Even if offering housing exclusively to the poor was discrimination in its traditional fashion, how on earth will not offering homes to people who already have homes while offering them to the homeless create inequality? It does precisely the opposite.
you cannot create laws, that are designed for classes /groups of people, it is unlawful, because of constitutional law.
it would be illegal to create a law, and call it blacks rights, gay's rights, white's rights, or hispanic rights, the poor's rights...the government cannot draw distinctions between people and treat them differently, no matter what their social or financial status is.