How was the U.S. Constitution an extension/expansion of the political principles/practices of the Am

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The US constitution is the manifestation of the desires of the US' humanist elite. Protection of individual rights with a stress on property rights.

That is to say that the ideas of Madison (who in the Federalist Papers argues that the propertied classes ought to be protected from the wanton many) took over a revolution started by popular agitators such as John Hancock (still moderate and rich) and Payne (who was deemed too radical).

You see, the constitution is a document written brilliantly to conceal that the "People" for whom it speaks and to whom it concedes all these rights were exclusively propertied white men. The ideas of the time are not reflected ni the constitution, only those of the rich.

For an alternative example look at the speeched given at the National Assembly during the French Revolution. Compare the radical egalitarianism of the French with the restrained elitism of the Anglo-Saxons.

This is from the Enrage Manifesto.

Freedom is but an empty illusion when one class of men can starve another with impunity. Equality is but an empty illusion when the rich, through monopolies, have the decision of life or death over their own kind. The Republic is but an empty illusion when the counterrevolution takes place daily because three-quarters of the citizenry cannot afford the price of basic foodstuffs and no one sheds a tear.

How was the U.S. Constitution an extension/expansion of the political principles/practices of the Am

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