01-17-2010 – Fruit Balance « //LucasHutmacherDotCom

01-17-2010 – Fruit Balance

When the Founding Fathers of the United States wrote the Preamble of the Constitution, their first words were, “We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice….” The Constitution thus looked as if it were written by all the people, representing their interests.

In fact, the Constitution was drawn up by fifty-five men, all white and mostly rich, who represented a certain elite group in the new nation. The document itself accepted slavery as legitimate, and at that time about one of every five persons in the population was a black slave. The conflicts between rich and poor and black and white, the dozens of riots and rebellions in the centuray before the Revolution, and a major uprising in western Massichusetts just before the covening of the Constitutional Convention (Shays’ Rebellion) were all covered over by the phrase “We the people.”