If we’re being fair, it was a Republic where only land-owning, white, and Christian men were allowed to have representation in Congress. That system was never

If we’re being fair, it was a Republic where only land-owning, white, and Christian men were allowed to have representation in Congress. That system was never going to survive alongside immigration (driven by capital demanding cheaper foreign labor in the 1800s), the growth of middle-class and educated women, and the spread into the frontier.