1. The Constitution was written by the wealthy capitalist class. ” In 1787, just such wealthy and powerful “gentlemen,” our “Founding Fathers,” congregated in Philadelphia for the professed purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and strengthen the central government.” (Reading 6.1). The social class that was excluded were the working-class people, minorities and women. ” The slaves, the indented servants, the mass of men who could not qualify for voting under the property tests imposed by the state consecution laws, and women, disenfranchised and subjected to the discrimination of the common law. These groups were, therefore, not represented in the Convention which drafted the Constitution.”(Reading 6.2).
  2. I would say that our social class structure of early United States society is the same because if we think back to module 5, we learned that only 1% of the population owns the nation’s wealth while 90% of the population is struggling. Which was the case even back in the early days the rich got richer, and the poor became poorer because of the implications that come with living in a society where there are such huge wealth inequalities is that it can make it hard for people to grow economically.
  3. The people who wrote the Constitution were so afraid of democracy because they only cared about how they could protect their wealth and had no real interests with helping the lower struggling class.” In 1787, a worried George Washington wrote to a former comrade-in-arms that a constitution was much needed “to contain the threat of the people rather than to embrace their participation and their competence,” lest ” the anarchy of the propertyless would give way to despotism.””(Reading 6.1). They wanted people to feel like they had a say but in reality, they didn’t. ” The first object of government is the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property. So, government is there to see that those who have a taken for getting rich are not hampered in any way by those how might be poor in the process.”(Reading 6.1).

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