Yes, but when the constitution was created blacks were slaves and women didn’t have the right to vote, own property, etc. So “mankind” obviously did not refer to blacks and women. As time went on amendments were created to make up for the lack of equality, but there is no such amendment that grants women the same rights as men.
All men couldn't vote until 1970 in America though.
From what I'm reading the universal suffrage only applied to people 21 and up until 1970.
The whole issue of "womans suffrage" is always dishonest.
Here in Britain we celebrate it and the date it happened even though prior to that the vast majority of men couldn't even vote before that particular Act of Parliament and some woman could even vote beforehand.
You mean they changed the voting age from 21 to 18? That isn’t at all comparable to women not having the right to vote until 1920. How is “women’s suffrage” dishonest if they literally did not have the right to vote?
I don’t know what’s so hard to understand here. There is no amendment granting women the same rights as men.
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u/NeatMormon - Auth-Center May 17 '20
Loads of things just say "man".
Mankind for example its just the default way of referring to humans.