rightwinger
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No shit SherlockOur classical liberal founders only provided the vote to landowners. Women, blacks, Indians did not have full rights as citizens.Do you believe women should vote?No such thing as classical liberalism
Only views held by liberals long ago
I am about as pure a classical liberal as it gets There very much is such a thing. Just too few people educated in the wisdom of it.
Sure, if they are citizens, of legal age, of sound mind, and informed. However, that has nothing to do with classical liberalism. The Founders didn't give anybody the ability to vote. They left who voted within the various states strictly up to the various states. That's what most identifies classical liberalism, i.e. the ability to decide what sort of society you want and allow the people to govern themselves.
Are you cherry picking what their views were?
They followed the thinking of the time. Your habit of applying 21st Century mores to the 18th Century is comical at best.
That is why there is no such thing as classical liberals
They were just the liberals of their day