Using the rhetoric of the First Amendment, a string of US Supreme Court cases has allowed members of some religious groups to limit the freedoms of other Americans.
Like almost everything with the US government: it is built around the idea that a bunch of rich white slave owners would act in good faith.
Also, from a quick google, we were looking at an average life expectancy of 30-40 in the 1700s/early 1800s. Which speaks even more to how only rich white men were supposed to have any power. But it also is why “a life time appointment” wasn’t really a big deal. Elected in your mid to late 30s and you MIGHT make it 10-20 years before your slaves finally ripped your dick off.
How much of that life expectancy was infant mortality? Or preventable diseases that didn’t affect the upper class people who would get lifetime appointments?
But I think the idea was to have an impartial third party that was unaffected by political maneuvering necessary for near constant elections.
Unfortunately it hasn’t worked out for us so much lately.
Most of it. If you lived past puberty you’d live to be a normal age, 50+. Kids tended to die of disease, but once you’re basically an adult, you’re a lot harder to kill.
Like almost everything with the US government: it is built around the idea that a bunch of rich white slave owners would act in good faith.
Also, from a quick google, we were looking at an average life expectancy of 30-40 in the 1700s/early 1800s. Which speaks even more to how only rich white men were supposed to have any power. But it also is why “a life time appointment” wasn’t really a big deal. Elected in your mid to late 30s and you MIGHT make it 10-20 years before your slaves finally ripped your dick off.
How much of that life expectancy was infant mortality? Or preventable diseases that didn’t affect the upper class people who would get lifetime appointments?
But I think the idea was to have an impartial third party that was unaffected by political maneuvering necessary for near constant elections.
Unfortunately it hasn’t worked out for us so much lately.
Most of it. If you lived past puberty you’d live to be a normal age, 50+. Kids tended to die of disease, but once you’re basically an adult, you’re a lot harder to kill.
Don’t I know it.
Indeed. The actuarials will give a solid life expectancy for those that reach appointment age.
There was a lot of child death pulling that life expectancy down.