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Male-Only Voting Rights In The United States
It made permanent slavery, counting slaves as 3/5 of a person.
It (at first/before other things happened) made permanent male-only voting rights.
It did not put enough protection around the growth of the (related to kings, queens, emperors, etc.) (time when someone is president/being a president).
It did not (at first/before other things happened) include term limits, as the Founders imagined people (who lawfully live in a country, state, etc.) coming forward to do their duty then retiring back to their farms.
It did not predict the (when a country builds factories and manufactures lots of things) and (growth of cities with more people) of America and put into place institutions that would easily change something (to help someone)/take
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