What Rick Santorum Doesn't Understand About American History

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Before bloviating further perhaps you can try to... oh, I don't know... provide references (links) to support your remarks concerning what Santorum said. That is, of course, if he actually did say these things. Minus the first quote, I doubt most of them are true, or at least in the context you present them.
Also, if you enjoy expanding historical inaccuracies into tangentially related page long columns you should be able to produce a complete novel with the current administration.
And lastly, if you want to know what Jefferson really thought, not just your hundredth generation retelling filtered through modernistic "sensibilities", I'd recommend this ditty by James Hutson, chief of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danbury.html
Sorry in advance if your iconic view of our third president is shattered.

Ted of WI 5:35PM March 05, 2012

You are exactly right - women had absolutely no part in the writing of the constitution. In fact, I've always doubted the little story about the supposed converstion between Ben Franklin and the woman outsite Constitution Hall: "What kind of government have you give us," she asked. "A Republic, madam, if you can keep it!" Really? A woman asked that questions as opposed to something like, "Why the H. didn't you give us the vote, MISTER Franklin?"

Vicki Felmlee of CO 3:12PM March 05, 2012