1. According to Articles 6.1 “..only property owning white males could vote, probably not more than 10 percent of the total adult population. Excluded were all native Americans, persons of African decent, women, indentures servants, and white males lacking sufficient property”  This excluded a majority of the people in which these crucial decisions were being made for. The article mentions this class of “gentlemen” and that “..almost all of them dread the efforts of the people to despoil them of their possessions..” Their main concern was not for the good of the people or the government. Their sole purpose in creating this system was to remain wealthy and keep those who were not so wealthy in check. 

1. Would say that the social class structure of early United States society, was the same as ours today, or different? Explain.

2. Just as George Washington wrote that a constitution was much needed to “to contain the threat of the people rather than embrace their participation and their competence” The working and low class people were portrayed as people who did not pay their debts and who advocated inflated paper money, this is similar to todays government. The democratic party is usually portrayed in the same way. This article states that small farmers were burdened by heavy rents, excessively high taxes, and low incomes. To survive they had they often had to borrow money at high interests rates and. This sounds a lot like society today, except instead of farm workers we are clocking into our 9-5 jobs and barely making it by. The rich want to stay rich, while the working class are scraping by. 

3. The people who wrote the constitution were afraid of democracy because the upper class wants to have control of all decisions. A  democracy would mean letting the working and lower class have a seat at the table as well to be able to have that debate of the have and have-nots. The upper class was afraid that as the nation expanded the greater the variety of parties and interests and the more difficult it would be for everyone to be on one accord, specifically one that favored the wealthy.