1. Based on our readings, it was made clear that the owning class made up the Convention that wrote the Constitution. These people were the wealthy merchants, slaveholders, and manufacturers that owned much of the land and means of production in the early United States. The class that was excluded from this process was the majority/working class. This was mostly made up of propertyless men, women, indentured servants, and slaves. If you weren’t a White man who owned property, you were basically excluded from reaping the benefits of the Constitution.
  2. I personally agree that the social classes are shockingly similar from the early U.S. to the present day. Although the majority class no longer includes slaves and indentured servants, as these ideas have long been abolished, there is still a working class that makes up the majority, and a wealthy owning class. I will say that today there is a stronger appeal by politicians to be favored by the majority, much of their work and policies can be found to benefit the people with wealth in this nation.
  3. The people who wrote the Constitution were afraid of a pure democracy because they thought the majority were too ill-minded to decide for themselves. They viewed the propertyless as ignorant savages. The majority class would not think in the best interest of the owning class and therefore could hinder how much the wealthy makes and owned by distributing resources in a manner that benefited the majority class.

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