Charles Beard: Motives Of The Founding Fathers
Throughout history there are all kinds of historians that describe about our history and how we got to where we are. Charles Beard is a unique historian because he talks about the motives on our history event by not just any event. This issue created a lot of debate on what Charles Beard believed and that is the motives of the Founding Fathers.
Charles Beard published An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States on whether the Constitution's backers simply concerned for the nation or were they interested in protecting their own material interest. He also describes that questioning the motives of the Constitution's supporters, it also demonstrated how important our interpretations of the past could be.
The supporters …show more content…
He made these arguments to back his thesis on that the supporters of the Constitution was looking for their interest and not entirely the nations interest.
After Charles Beard published this thesis, made a dispute against other historians.
These historians do not believe Charles Beard's thesis and try to disprove his thoughts and prove that the supports did not write the Constitution for their own interest. In a chart, which shows the Delegates that were at the Constitution Convention. The Delegates on this chart are people having public security holdings, who are people from all different backgrounds. The Delegates mostly signed the Constitution were not all wealthy landowners looking out for them. There was some small farmer in that group, who would never sign the document to benefit the rich. In other chart on the Delegates to the New York State Ratifying Convention shows that there was a mixes of people with different economic status voting for the Ratifying Convention. Also the people who voted were Federal and Anti-Federal that voted Federal, plus lawyers did not vote for it and those would be the kind of people to want
Charles Beard published An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States on whether the Constitution's backers simply concerned for the nation or were they interested in protecting their own material interest. He also describes that questioning the motives of the Constitution's supporters, it also demonstrated how important our interpretations of the past could be.
The supporters …show more content…
He made these arguments to back his thesis on that the supporters of the Constitution was looking for their interest and not entirely the nations interest.
After Charles Beard published this thesis, made a dispute against other historians.
These historians do not believe Charles Beard's thesis and try to disprove his thoughts and prove that the supports did not write the Constitution for their own interest. In a chart, which shows the Delegates that were at the Constitution Convention. The Delegates on this chart are people having public security holdings, who are people from all different backgrounds. The Delegates mostly signed the Constitution were not all wealthy landowners looking out for them. There was some small farmer in that group, who would never sign the document to benefit the rich. In other chart on the Delegates to the New York State Ratifying Convention shows that there was a mixes of people with different economic status voting for the Ratifying Convention. Also the people who voted were Federal and Anti-Federal that voted Federal, plus lawyers did not vote for it and those would be the kind of people to want