1. 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.

Based on my reading and understanding of 6.1 and 6.2, the wealth owning capitalist classes wrote the constitution. The social classes that were not allowed to participate in this process is the working classes, the Non-wealthy classes. They were not allowed to input their ideas that involves shaping the government system due to them being wealthy enough they wouldn’t want to include other social classes but themselves.

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

I would honestly say that it is somewhat the same as our today, because the upper classes are still considering themselves as higher classes than others and if you’re in a lower class they’re more likely to not help you enough and things are as much harder on your side compared to the higher class. But in today’s society they’re more focus on education, wealth and income.

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.

I would honestly say that the people who wrote the Constitution so afraid of democracy because they know what the outcome would be if the allow/let the lower Class get more power it would be much harder for the upper class people because they would make few changes which will make all the classes (slightly) the same which means no comparison against the classes and that’s the main reason why they were afraid of them because they were afraid they have more (power) to change the idea of things that they had control over and they’re upper class they wouldn’t want to be associated with the lower classes, they prefer their separate beliefs.

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