1. Based on the reading the ” rich and wellborn” class wrote the constitution. Stated to protect themselves from the poor. Early times the reading states white males can only vote. Excluded were the Native American persons of African descent, women, indentured servants and white males lacking sufficient property. The wealthy would be land owners, bankers etc. The poor class were the opposite and did not have any wealth.
  2. The social class structure in early U.S society I would say it’s still similar in Current today society. The capitalist still on top and wealthy and the working class having to work every day to make a living to have that labor power to do it all again everyday.
  3. In the reading it states it was the worst of political evils and urged Not to make a document to “please the people” According to Alexander Hamilton the first are the rich and Wellborn and ask for the other people he states the people are turbulent and changing.

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  1. Hello Evelyn, you make an excellent argument for how the “rich and wellborn” were considered when creating the Constitution. They protected their own power and wealth by limiting voting privileges to wealthy white men, while preventing voting rights to the majority of the population, including women, Native Americans, African Americans, and poor white men. It is evident that the wealthy landowners, bankers, and merchants were given priority in this early social class structure, while the working class had little say in matters. It’s interesting that you pointed out that there is still a class difference today, with the wealthy at the top and the working class still having to struggle to make ends meet. The framers of the Constitution seemed more concerned with upholding order and defending their own interests than they did with establishing a government that served the interests of all citizens equally, as demonstrated by Hamilton’s assessment of the ordinary people as “turbulent and changing.”

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