1. The capitalist class wrote the constitution and the working class did not partake in the process. Reading 6.2 states, “we first encounter four groups whose economic status had a definite legal expression: the slaves, the identified servants, the mass of men who could not qualify for voting under the property tests imposed by the state constitutions and laws and women… these groups were, therefore, not represented in the convention which drafted the constitution”. Reading 6.1 states, “(c) effectively propagate the financial and commercial interests of the affluent class and (d) defend the very wealthy from the competing claims of other classes within the society”. These were the main interests of the delegates when creating a stronger central power. Reading 6.1 states, “The working people of that day have been portrayed as parochial spendthrifts who never paid their debts and who advocated inflated paper money”. For this portration the working class was excluded and not allowed to participate given their lack of value and benefit that they could provide unlike the capitalist class. 

2. I would say yes the social class structure of the early united states society is the same as ours today. The elite wealthy still own a large chunk of the country’s wealth in investments, stocks, etc. Without having to do much of the labor that the working class puts into effort to sustain them as the working class tries to sustain enough for themselves. In reading 6.1, The capitalist class has a high mindedness attribute in which they believe that what was good for themselves was ultimately good for their country. The capitalist class still look after themselves and their close allies to benefit from the working class as much as they can. This is true in which the government may not really regulate corporate companies that compete each other out and exploit the open market with the promise that it benefits everybody. But in reality this can be unfair for consumers and those trying to gain wealth.

3. The delegates were afraid of democracy as they were worried that their selfish interests would be disturbed. In the system where the capital class owners offer money from job opportunities to the working class in exchange for the labor power that the working class can provide to do the work. They both rely on each other firmly. Whereas if the working class didn’t want to provide the labor to produce the capital money at the end of the process, the capitalists could not sustain their wealth for long. Same way the capitalist owners don’t provide work, the working class won’t have work to make income from. In the eyes of the delegates, “The people should have as little to do as may be about the government”. Back then and even now this can still be said about the working class to counter any potential knowledge that they might have had to use against the delegates. Reading 6.1 also states, “all communities divide themselves into the few and many”. There were risks of division and unstableness to arise from a democracy in place.