THESIS PAPER "The Constitution of 1787 was written solely to advance the economic interests of the upper classes of the United States." At the time the Constitution of 1787 was written, America had just won its independence from the monarchy of England. In England, the king and the aristocracy controlled the land and the money at the expense of the people. This limited the people's chances for economic advancement. When these oppressed people broke away from English …
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…same Republican conclusion: give the states the right to have a small group of representatives, some from each state, which vote for the large groups of people in those states. So the Constitution, finally, appears to form a compromise between the economic interests of the majority and of the minority. Therefore, the Constitution displays the least democratic way of controlling the economy, but still appearing to be in the best interest of the common man.