Your assumption that moderators would find a trend and select a representative opinion is what most people want. The truth is, in this demonstration, as well as in Congress today, the "moderators" are swayed by personal opinion and "other incentives".
In the early years of Congress, delegates were not paid. No one "ran for the office", that would have been deemed inappropriate at the time. Delegates were <strong>nominated</strong> from and by people in the community. If someone accepted, they would leave their farm or business, serve some time in Congress, and then return to their farm or business. Serving in Congress was an act of duty and an obligation to their Country, not a means of earning a living, let alone a career.
The very point of the Declaration & Constitution was to establish an open government. That women have voice in government today is a direct result of the flexibility of Constitution to adapt to change.
In regards to the inclusion of women, Native Americans, African Americans, etc., during the writing of the Declaration & Constitution, history is clear that they fought side by side one another against the British. Crispus Attucks was the first "American" to die in the Revolutionary War. Don't forget that at that time, to sign your name on the Declaration of Independence was a act of treason, punishable by death.
Don't under estimate the gift we've been given, or the responsibility we <strong>all</strong> share to see that this "open government" stays open. Let us not forget the words of Abraham Lincoln, almost 100 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, at the close of a war that almost tore the country in two:
"<em>It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.</em>"
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Your assumption that moderators would find a trend and select a representative opinion is what most people want. The truth is, in this demonstration, as well as in Congress today, the "moderators" are swayed by personal opinion and "other incentives".
In the early years of Congress, delegates were not paid. No one "ran for the office", that would have been deemed inappropriate at the time. Delegates were <strong>nominated</strong> from and by people in the community. If someone accepted, they would leave their farm or business, serve some time in Congress, and then return to their farm or business. Serving in Congress was an act of duty and an obligation to their Country, not a means of earning a living, let alone a career.
The very point of the Declaration & Constitution was to establish an open government. That women have voice in government today is a direct result of the flexibility of Constitution to adapt to change.
In regards to the inclusion of women, Native Americans, African Americans, etc., during the writing of the Declaration & Constitution, history is clear that they fought side by side one another against the British. Crispus Attucks was the first "American" to die in the Revolutionary War. Don't forget that at that time, to sign your name on the Declaration of Independence was a act of treason, punishable by death.
Don't under estimate the gift we've been given, or the responsibility we <strong>all</strong> share to see that this "open government" stays open. Let us not forget the words of Abraham Lincoln, almost 100 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, at the close of a war that almost tore the country in two:
"<em>It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.</em>"