The USA never was a Democracy

The US constitution is a vastly overrated document that was written in 1787 by some 50 aristocrats, half of which were slaveholders, and none of which cared for the right of women to vote.

The US constitution was never meant to be democratic. None of the founders believed in democracy.

Alexander Hamilton stated: "The body of people do not possess the discernment and stability necessary for systematic government. To deny that they are frequently led into the grossest errors by misinformation and passion, would be a flattery which their own good sense must despise." (Speech to the New York ratifying convention, 1788)

John Adams: democracy "never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide" (Letter to John Taylor, 17 December 1814)

James Madison: “Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob"

The framers of the US constitution were strongly anti-democratic people, jealous of their (aristocratic) rights, with no intention to surrender power to the masses.

I'm not sure the accuracy of the sentence "among the Iroquoi only women could vote"