Money is the most powerful entity. With money you are able to control anything. Money is used as a medium of exchange, a store of value, keeps score, and can be used as a standard of deferred payment. As the forefathers of the constitution were writing the articles, they included economic details for many reasons. The three major reasons for the constitution being an economic document are the writers, commerce, and debt.
The writers of the Constitution were people who could be affected by the fluctuation of money; therefore, the Constitution based many Articles on economy. The United States is dependent on what the writers illustrate. For example, those who wrote the paper are wealthy individuals that protect their own wealthy before others. Also, the farmers and workers depend on the outcome of tariffs and commerce of goods.
Suppose it could be shown from the classification of the men who supported and opposed the Constitution that there was no line of property division at all; that is, that men owning substantially the same amounts of the same kinds of property were equally divided on the matter of adoption or rejection--it would then become apparent that the Constitution had no ascertainable relation to economic groups of classes, but was the product of some abstract causes remote from the chief business of life--gaining a livelihood (Beard, American History).
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United StatesThe documents of economy in the Constitution state the importance of security of personal valuables including land, money, and occupational items. The Federalist, was created to appeal to the voters to approve the Constitution, but also would compel the large economic groups. These society groups that contained the majority of the money trusted the writers with the security of their money. As shown by the quote above, the economic capability that the writers possessed...