Capitalists\/wealthy white men wrote the constitution, and purposefully wrote laws to keep themselves powerful, and the poor weak and uneducated. Only white property owners could vote, black people still enslaved and considered 3\/5 of a person definitely couldn’t vote, women couldn’t vote. Anyone who did not fit the rich white man standard was not able to vote. For example Michael Parenti argued “In twelve of the thirteen states (Pennsylvania excepted), only property owning White males could vote, probably not more than 10 percent of the total adult population. Excluded were all Native Americans (\u201cIndians\u201d), persons of African descent, women, indentured servants, and White males lacking sufficient property. This except just proves that this government was built on hate and exclusion, making it harder for regular people to be represented within the government . Many messed up parts of the constitution is still around to this day which is why the rich continue to get richer and the poor poorer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would say that the class structures are slightly different because of the rise of the middle class, and people now having more opportunities for work and owning their own business. However the elite still controls the government, wanting the working class to stay idle and not jeopardize their money. Society has evolved just not over the corruption of the government <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The elite were afraid of losing their wealth, and being considered better than their counterparts because of the money the had. The elite wanted to keep the control of society because the working class was seen as uneducated, and did not know how to run a government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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