Democracy Dbq

The Constitution of the United States of America is seen as a vastly democratic document, allowing democracy to flourish here. But is it truly as democratic as believed? Was a democracy even the intended goal of the writers? Well we’ll just have to figure that out. Starting with, who the writers of the Constitution were. Then what a pure democracy even is. Followed by four separate parts of the Constitution and the extent to which that they are democratic. Ending with the answer to our question.
Constitutional Conventions was where the Constitution was written up. The Conventions started in the summer of 1787 and did not end until the Constitution was finished, two years later in 1789. In total there was fifty-five delegates sent to the convention.

A pure democracy is a government where in, the government is told what to do by the people when they, the people, vote directly on laws, issues and politics. Which means they would lose their considerable amount of power, and most likely their wealth as well, to the majority. The majority that made up approximately eighty to ninety percent of the population. The majority that was mostly made up of poor farmers and slaves. However indentured servants, unskilled workers and skilled workers made up fifteen to thirty percent to the population, and thus a part of the majority. The elites knew that the new document had to give the majority enough power and say, so as to make them happy enough so that they do not rebel. Like Shay and the other poor farmers did. As much as they did not want nor intend for the Constitution to be a democracy, they did intend for it to be more democratic than a monarchy. Which is what most other countries had. They did achieve that too. The Constitution actually resembles a republic than a democracy. A republic is when the government is told what to do by the people through elected representatives, thus indirectly telling the government what to do.
Due to the writers not intending for the Constitution to be a pure democracy, just democratic enough, there are parts that are fairly democratic and other parts that are minisculely