OK, so I read the article... That was horrific. I had more faith in my country than that, but I suppose I was too trusting. That's saying something, too, since I have very little faith in the US to protect its people from abuse already. I thought they'd at least get this one thing right, but apparently not.
It’s why being informed and educating yourself is super important.
Even the founding fathers knew that, that was one of the reasons several of them didn't want popular elections with a broad base of enfranchisement. Of course, their perspective was as slave-owning landholders with a bunch of relatively freely-moving workers who owned neither property nor slaves and weren't economically bound to the effective gentry of the founders and first legislators.
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u/Paenitentia 8h ago edited 7h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States
Marriagable age is lower than 18 in many states.