- Based on the arguments presented in Readings 6.1 and 6.2, which social class wrote the Constitution, and which class was excluded and not allowed to participate in this process? In your comment, make sure you clearly specify the difference between the two classes by giving examples from the readings.
The constitution was written by the ( property white owning men social class ) aka Upper Social Class , meanwhile the classes excluded and not allowed were the Lower Social Class (Native Americans , people of African descent , women and white men lacking sufficient property ) . The Upper social class was more on the side of keeping all the power and leaving the lower class with nothing .
2. Would you say that the social class structure of early United States society, was the same as ours today, or different? Explain.
I would say that that the social class structure was a bit different in a way versus ours today . The reason I say that is because like in the previous question the upper class had majority of the power while lower had more like a pinch . In today’s society , upper class isn’t as power as they were back then , and the lower class was as powerless as they were back then .
3. Why were the people who wrote the Constitution so afraid of democracy? Hint: think about how to answer this question by discussing it in terms of social classes.
Democracy were called ” the most of all political evils ” because constituiton knew their ” power ” would be shared with everyone else and it wouldn’t be able to keep everyone on track like it was when they had all the power .
Hello Christian,
Definitely there are similarities between those who wrote the constitution and those that were left out with what we see in our modern time today. The lower/working class is still those of ethnic groups and women and those in power, the owning class, are the rich who continue to in certain forms, be white males who have inherited their wealth.