1. The social class that wrote the constitution of the US would be those that owned land and had wealth at this time. In reading 6.2 they would be considered real property holders. The group or society classes that were excluded at this time were those that are within the  disenfranchised class. These members were women, Native Americans, people of African descent. indentured servants and any white male that was lacking sufficient property. Property owners in the south were excluded from taking part in writing the constitution as well. To be considered within the class of a real property owner you had to not only have money, but be wealthy enough to have land as well. 
  2. I would say that for the most part they are closely the same. The reason why I believe this is because we see wealthy rich folks now trying to oppress other classes from voting. An example of this is in Atlanta, Georgia, a southern state where we see voters struggling to obtain their rights. We see politicians who would be considered back then a part of the owned land society class trying to keep the disenfranchised class down. 
  3. In terms of a democratic government the reason why they were so scared of this is because it was determined that a person of birth and fortune should control the affairs of the nation and be able to have the power to hold checks and balances. The reason why in terms of social class this would fear many is that not only rich and power landowners within the real property social class could take part in the government but other social classes could as well. This would include framers who had landed and slave owners who owned land as well but were not consider to be apart of this class. The biggest issue that would come out of this was now for those who hold or didn’t hold property started to form interest in their society and their first “object of the government” was to the protection of everyone’s rights. The founders were not happy about this but everyone would come to an agreement that would consist of two legislation. They would have the House of Representatives who would be elected every two years. While members of the Senate would serve six year terms. The seats in the House would be shared among the states according to population and regardless of population each state would have two seats in the Senate. 

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