![]() The founders even deliberately excluded a bill of rights from the Constitution. It was rather duplicitous of them to protect that which they and others of their class already held in undue measure while excluding protections of primary interest to others. ![]() At the time of the writing of the Constitution the distribution of power and wealth in America was already profoundly unjust and inequitable, and the founders were already among the beneficiaries of that injustice. However, the Constitution was not written in a vacuum but in the midst of a society already in existence. It is not that there is anything wrong with the protection of private property and private contract. For good measure, this privileged few made it nearly impossible to alter its constitution and then only by the privileged elites that overwhelmingly populate the seats of government holding an unending hegemony of power. The constitution that they wrote protects private property, private contract, and other interests that were of particular concern to the American aristocracy while ignoring or minimizing the interests of principal concern to everyone else. While claiming to have created a government that did not unduly favor any particular faction of people, the founders, a small group of privileged white men, aristocrats of their time, created a government that in fact, both by its inclusions and its exclusions, favored themselves, others of their class, their heirs, and similar others through the generations. Dominance and Plutocracy the American WayĪmerica is not a democracy but a plutocracy that is dominated and ruled by a wealthy minority.Īmerica’s current form of government is based on a constitution written a little over 200 years ago by a small group of men that many today affectionately, some even worshipfully, call “our Forefathers.” In this work, a more distant or neutral term, the founders, is used.
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