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It was bizarrely phrased, but I think she meant that women and black people got short shrift in the original Constitution. She had to get in a slam at the dead white guys, I guess.
UPDATE: Of course if she's suggesting that free black men didn't have the vote anywhere in the early United States, she's wrong.
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