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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 40565, member: 1674&quot;]Remember that you are talking about men who wrote, &quot;according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, . . . and <b>excluding Indians . . ., [and] three fifths of all other Persons</b>. (US Constitution Art. I, Sec. 2, Clause 3)&nbsp; (emphasis mine)&nbsp; Basically, free white MEN count as 1 each, &quot;Indians&quot; count as nothing and &quot;all other persons&quot; (read slaves) count as 3/5 of a person!!&nbsp; Sounds equal to me!!!&nbsp; Well maybe not.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Please remember that history is ALWAYS written by the victor.&nbsp; Just because we honor Washington/Jefferson/John Jay, doesn&#039;t mean that everyone does (or even should).&nbsp; For an interesting foray into the counterfactual you might want to read &quot;For Want of a Nail&quot; by Robert Sobel.&nbsp; It is the standard counterfactual (what if) work of US history.&nbsp; It describes what happens to the &quot;traitors&quot; (Washington, Jefferson, et al.) who tried to seperate from the Mother country and had to be put down with force.&nbsp; ( And then goes on to speculate about how North America would have developed politically).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My point is that even in the context of their time the founding fathers weren&#039;t flawless even though the ideals that we want our country to stand for should be.&nbsp; Thus I voted no to actual people on coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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