The Constitution was written to protect the interests of the wealthy from "summary" of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The framers of the Constitution were not a cross-section of the American population. They were a small, wealthy elite with interests that were often in conflict with those of the majority. Many of them were slave owners who wanted to protect their property rights and ensure the continuation of the institution of slavery. This is evident in the Three-Fifths Compromise, which counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of representation in Congress, giving slaveholding states more political power. The Constitution also established a system of government that favored the wealthy. The Electoral College, for example, was designed to prevent the election of a populist candidate who might threaten the interests of the elite. The Senate, with its equal representation for each state regardless of population, also gave disproport...
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