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I searched Google and there were no good results.
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No, you.
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The government was formed and agreed upon by a tiny minority of the people- those that already had some power. Some of them didn't want the little people to vote at all. Then it was white male landowners.
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10% revolted. The voting system was the best we could do at the time. The '2/5th of a person' was to contain the power of the slave-holding states. Abolition took less than 100 years (1789 to 1865, or thereabouts), and that's 150 years ago. The franchise was expanded until recently. The blue states are resegregating.