[image: FoundingFathersVoting.jpg] The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for July 4, 2023 Thomas Jefferson was an owner of enslaved people when he wrote this line in the Declaration of Independence: “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.” Who could give that Consent by voting was debated by the landed White male gentry, framing what became the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
🎧 90-Sec. Listen, 📖 Read, 🔗 Resources 📣 Groups in Action
www.americandemocracyminute.org/wethepeople/2023/07/03/would-the-founding-fathers-have-given-you-the-freedom-to-vote/
🎧 90-Sec. Listen, 📖 Read, 🔗 Resources 📣 Groups in Action
www.americandemocracyminute.org/wethepeople/2023/07/03/would-the-founding-fathers-have-given-you-the-freedom-to-vote/
