During virtually every election cycle, people are heard saying “I’m not voting.” Yet, their reasons are usually based on fairly inane excuses. Let’s take a look back at history and how we came to have the right to vote in the first place. Perhaps some of the non-voting population simply needs a refresher in our nation’s history. It may remind all of us about how and why our country came to be the greatest in the world.
The Mayflower landed in Massachusetts on November 21, 1620. The Pilgrims came to the European colony to escape religious persecution and economic hardship. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
The next part of history is, of course, the establishment of a new country with individual rights. Our forefathers wrote documents to insure these rights to be inalienable, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights which is part of the Constitution of the United States of America. Since the formation of our country, there have been thirteen wars to defend these rights. The number of service members who either died or were permanently disabled as a result is quite sobering. These statistics don’t even include the previous two years.
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