POLS-Y 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Counterargument, Pragmatism
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Men of considerable personality holdings other than real estate bonds. Public security interests, land speculation, money loaned, investments in manufacture and commerce, investments in slave trade and slave ownership. Conclusion: they only represented economic interest of financial elites (maximized their financial gains) Men with diver sified investments, holdings in personalty and realty which beard failed to acknowledge: Motivated to protect both and created laws of protecting everyone"s property, protected their and everyone else"s rights. Conclusion: as long as they benefitted so did the country as a whole (protected everyone"s interests)- not convincing but good points. Ratification of the constitution (through state conventions) 75% indifferent (implicit support, tacit support), many american knew this was such a poplar document that it would pass without them having to go vote (brown) Only 16. 5% in favor- but most people did not vote (beard) This document did not have popular support.
