Monday, October 19, 2009

"Founding Fathers Democratic or Not"

I believe strongly that the Founding Fathers were not democratic. I say his for many reasons but all of them boil down to one attribute most of them held, selfishness. The Founding Fathers all would have and did, benefit greatly from the creation of a strong central government. They benefited by being able to make it so they could keep slaves, many had government bonds, many were big loaners and that way they would profit greatly, and lastly they they also were some of the biggest land owners. Also I say they weren't democratic because thy let the four biggest social groups (slaves, indentured servants, women and men without property0 completely out of the conventions and they were the people who would be most affected.