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Something that surprised me was that a few founding fathers from the North only believed that men were selfish and that democracy was near impossible to achieve.

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The founding fathers were more focused on maintaining the economic privilege of being rich landowners than appealing to the wishes of the common people. The idea of 'liberty' was tied to the ownership of property rather than the freedom to live life in pursuit of personal happiness.

The constitution was written based on the notion that people were inherently selfish and self-preserving and was deliberately written to counteract human greed.

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When the FF founded the constitution, a portion of ideas were based off of lack of property

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1. The constitution was created by the people, for the people, yet the people couldn't govern themselves directly because of their selfish intentions.
2. The Founding Fathers didn't want to change man´s selfish nature; they wanted to control it to create a stable government.

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1) The Founding Fathers were in interest of the people and acknowledged  their freedom causing them to create Constitutions that benefited mankind.
2) The Founding Fathers were interested in a balanced government, regulating governmental advantages which both negatively and positively influenced society.

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they thought that their new government was not set  a one political party or democratic & it had many flaws but they still pursued the contitution

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they thought that their new government was not set  a one political party or democratic & it had many flaws but they still pursued the contitution

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1. the founding fathers were in opposition to arbitrary rule.
2.they did not want to follow through with hobbes conclusion that states that any government must be formed in order to avert anarchy.

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The founding fathers did not believe in democracy and described the natural state of mankind is a state of war

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1. According to the author, the founding fathers believed the same as Thomas Hobbes in the sense that all men are evil, and only act for self interest.
2. The Founding Fathers created a government that would consider its people at topmost priority. Also just like how Calvnists believed in the separation of church and state, the Fathers wanted a neutral position on religion, and thus kept it seperate from the government.

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The founding fathers created a constitution for the people, but decided not to trust them.

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1. The Founding Fathers were aware that the new government was not truly democratic.
2. The Founding Fathers did not want to turn to true, left wing democracy nor the extreme right.

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1.People put the common good before their own self interests.
2. Property was important in their eyes. The more property they had, the more stakes in society.

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While man should have a say in their government, they shouldn't self govern themselves as their selfish needs would create bias.

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While man should have a say in their government, they shouldn't self govern themselves as their selfish needs would create bias.

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When writing the constitution, they were aware of its flaws but continued the create it for the freedom of the people.

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The constitution was pretty flawed as it was afraid of completely equal rights, yet didn't want to follow the same rules as the British

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The constitution was pretty flawed as it was afraid of completely equal rights, yet didn't want to follow the same rules as the British

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Man was not acknowledged but was constantly feared and regulated

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Man was not acknowledged but was constantly feared and regulated

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The Right to vote was only there for the land-owning white male

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The Right to vote was only there for the land-owning white male

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Their values revolved around man-kind being an evil force and hungry for war.

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Their values revolved around man-kind being an evil force and hungry for war.