1. The social class that wrote the constitution were the delegate class. While the ones that weren’t allowed to participate were the working class which consisted of Native Americans, white males without property, indentured servants, and all females of different race. For example, According to reading 6.2, “Those who possessed the ballot and economic power were compelled to safeguard their rights.” Only the people that has wealth were able to protect the rights and had the voice to exercise them. On the other hand, “The slaves, servants, men who had no property and woman were disenfranchised and subjected to the discriminations or the common law,” this shows that people who were working class didn’t have a say when it came to common laws and they weren’t given the right to change them, they had to accept it for what it was.

2. The social structure of the early U.S. society isn’t the same as ours today because many people weren’t able to vote because of the social class there were in. As of right now in the 21st century anybody thats a US citizen can vote. In the 1700s there were a a lot of people who couldn’t vote because of their income.

3. The people who wrote the constitution were afraid of the democracy because they were worried that it would effect there system of governance.

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