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[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 10 months ago

Except it was effectively true,

Only in the same way it was true that men couldn't vote in the US until shortly before the Civil War. Because before that most states didn't have state laws mandating that all free male citizens be allowed to vote.