John P. Roche is a political scientist who argues that our founding fathers were democratic statesmen in which created a constitution that supports not only our nation but as well as the people. He says that the Philadelphia Convention where a nationalist reform caucus that created a compromise that was acceptable to the people and helped increase national interest. He also notes that under the articles of confederation the founding fathers where able to get every state to appoint delegates to Philadelphia, the central government under the articles were component states in which that the members of congress were chosen by state legislatures in all but Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. James Madison drafted the Virginia Plan in which consisted of a bicameral legislature. Each state would be represented by the number of inhabitants which means that states with a large population would have more representatives than smaller states. Smaller states opposed this plan and eventually proposed their own plan. The New Jersey plan proposed a single chamber in which each state, no matter what the population size is would have only one vote so that way it would be fair for smaller states. With these two plans both …show more content…
Charles Beard said that governments including the U.S. are not neutral and that they represent those with economic interest and that the constitution was to be formed around them. The constitution serves the wealthy elites interest but also does enough for small property owners. The constitution became more acceptable after Congress passed the Bill of Rights which guarded peoples rights and liberties. The founding fathers didn't want balance except those of elitism. They didn't want balance between men and woman, slaves and masters, property holders and those without. These people were left out of the Declaration of Independence and the