1. Based on the readings it seems to me that the class that wrote the Constitution was the Capitalist class and only they were allowed to participate in that process. While the working and poor class were not there during the creation of the Constitution and were prevented from contributing and benefiting from it. As Beard put it they were the disenfranchised. The Capitalist class were made up of White wealthy land owners, slave owners and merchants. While the disenfranchised were everyone else, from slaves, indentured servants, men who could not participate in government because they didn’t own land and women.
  2. While there are some differences there are clearly some similarities to today. We still have we social class just more of them, including the poor and middle class. Today there are no more disenfranchised groups like slaves and more people can patriciate in government such as women and people without land. But the things that have stated the same is that its still Capitalist that have more power in government
  3. The people who wrote the constitution were so afraid of democracy because they didn’t to lose their wealth and influence to the people they saw as unfit to run society. They were elitist and wanted to maintain their control over people and a way of doing that is limiting democracy and the rights of the disenfranchised.

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