... that's where he is wrong again because there were other classes of people like federalists, and antifederalists, people who supported slavery and people who didn"t. First goal of constitution is to protect property of the people. As Hamilton has it in Federalists Papers and in Constitution. But Beard refers to Federalists papers as to a propaganda, designed to help a constitution to be passed on convention. Beard looks ... at Federal Papers because in his mind the dominant economic groups always used government to advance their interest. And they did ... ...

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