{"id":738,"date":"2013-12-17T11:16:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2022-07-24T07:04:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T12:04:45","slug":"founding-fathers-and-equal-state-suffrage-greatest-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Founding Fathers and Equal State Suffrage: Greatest Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our greatest Founding Fathers opposed equal state suffrage. Here is a short summary of their most definitive and quotable statements. See the original posts for links, discussion, and evidence of the persistence of their views.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>George Washington: Convention delegates who supported equal state suffrage were &#8220;narrow minded politicians.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>John Adams: Proportional representation is a &#8220;first Principle of Liberty.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Jefferson: &#8220;A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>James Madison: Proportional representation is the &#8220;proper foundation of government.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Hamilton: &#8220;The rights of suffrage in the national legislature ought to be proportioned to the number of free inhabitants.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>James Wilson: Proportional representation is an &#8220;inherent, indisputable, and unalienable right of men.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Franklin\/Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776: &#8220;&#8230;representation in proportion to the number of taxable inhabitants is the only principle which can at all times secure liberty, and make the voice of a majority of the people the law of the land&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The Virginia Plan (Madison\/Washington\/Mason\/Randolph\/Wythe\/Blair\/McClurg): &#8220;The rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the Quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our greatest Founding Fathers opposed equal state suffrage. Here is a short summary of their most definitive and quotable statements. See the original posts for links, discussion, and evidence of the persistence of their views. George Washington: Convention delegates who supported equal state suffrage were &#8220;narrow minded politicians.&#8221; John Adams: Proportional representation is a &#8220;first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-founding-fathers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}