During the eleven years prior to the constitution, men of wealth and property were threatened. Economic problems developed within the government; the government was incapable of paying it's debt, and regulating the relationship between the creditors and the debtors (Shultz 51). Incapable of paying off thier debt, the states began printing their own currency. Each state printed different currency, which made it difficult to determine it's value , and soon became known as "cheap money, because it was basically worthless paper and caused notable inflation in the states" (Shultz 52). This was

Fifty-five of the seventy-four delegates appointed by their states showed up at the convention in Philadelphia. However, the fifty-five that showed up were known as the framers of the constitution. They were the "most prominent economic and political figures in the United States. Six men stand out as leaders of the convention: George Washington, who quickly made president of the convention, James Madison, Edmund Randolph, Benjamin Franklin, and Gouverneur Morris, one of the most foremost business and financial leaders in the country" (Shultz 56). This elite group did not represent the population at large, and was very similar; "They were the elite of the American elite...The delegates were all white men who ranged in age from twenty-six to eighty one; Ben Franklin was the eldest of the delegates. They were all well educated. More than half of the delegates had been educated at either Harcard, William and Mary, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia College, Princeton, or England. Many of them possessed past governing experience either at the state or national level. Seven had served as governors of their statesl thirty-nine had served in Congress. Five delegates sugned both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. All the men at the convention were creditors who represented the conservative interests of the creditor class. At least forty of the fifty-five men held revolutionary stocks ir binds; fourteen were land speculators; twenty-four were moneylenders and inverstors; eleven were engaged in commerce or manufacturing; fifteen owned large plantations" (Shultz 56). These fifty-five elite men had many other assets to prove they could create a better, stronger national government,

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