Respond to a peer’s post regarding An Economic Interpretation of the Founding Fathers,
After
further research on the Founding Fathers, it seems that they had prioritized
the nation’s future populations in favor of their own personal gain when
drafting the Constitution. There seemed to be a small amount of input from the
Founding Fathers that would favor themselves, but it was not significant enough
to throw away the idea that they had created the Constitution for the
betterment of the nation. According to Singer, a majority of the Founding
Fathers were wealthy individuals in the shipbuilding and the slave industries
which required lots of money lending. A universal currency for the United
States would benefit the nation as a whole, and the Founding Fathers were no
exception to this. A major reason behind why the Constitution was written is that
it helped to promote a strong enough Government that could perform on a
national level. It would only be reasonable for any group of people who are
going to create laws/guidelines to not write down anything that would
jeopardize or threaten themselves; the Constitution is no exception to this
ideal. The Articles of the Constitution had established a democratic Government
system that would greatly benefit the American people. The U.S. government system would allow for varying parties to have an opinion or say on a topic at
hand. If it was not for the Government system that the Articles of the
Constitution had put in place, America would end up in a world similar to the
one that Thomas Hobbes had dreamt of which is one with Absolutism and a sole
Monarch. Though the U.S. government has its flaws, particularly with the length
of time it takes for any new law to pass, it certainly can be argued that our
current system is better than anything that Absolutism would bring. The
Founding Fathers had witnessed firsthand what a government ruled under a
Monarch would look like and wanted no part in it for themselves or for the rest
of their country.
https://fee.org/articles/the-founders-the-constitution-and-the-historians/
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/lesson_plans/pdfs/unit2_14.pdf