Founding Fathers...

The Founding Fathers were Democratic Reformers. They believed that they were creating a better government for the people. Even though they tried to make a government that was for the people i agree with Howard Zinn that they might of been it for more of a personal gain. Like Mr. Smith said Zinn did a good job at pursuing me to believe that the Founding Fathers weren't everything that they were said to be like what Roche thought. I think that the Founding Fathers cared too much about themselves and what they would get out of it instead of the country as a whole. (I think this sort of goes along with our RED/BLUE game we did in class too because when we voted a second time people cared to much about there own grade instead of what everybody would have gotten.) They did have a few intentions like if you didn't own property you couldn't vote for the constitution, and most people who would of been against the constitution didn't own any land, so they were smart with that intention. They do deserve some credit though for having the time to come up with the Constitution and having it be successful so that everyone agreed on it. Once again, i believe that Zinn's argument was stronger then Roche's and Zinn's was more interesting to read, making it more persuasive.