Are you asking the ABers to do your school work? Pasted from Google: "Democracy and the Federal Constitution: Notes from the Constitutional Convention, May-Sept., 1787 Although most Americans have long considered the Federal Constitution to be the centerpiece of the nation’s democracy, the men who met in Philadelphia in 1787 to draft the document spoke candidly about how they thought democracy was the part of the problem rather than the solution. Moreover, most of the "founding fathers" indicated that they wanted the new government to check democracy. Your objective is to write a posting that explains why the elite founders were upset with democracy and how they intended for the new federal government to check it. Develop your response using the following excerpts taken from the debates of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention. I have divided the passages into sections that deal with debate on a particular topic. Reading these documents, you'll quickly understand why the delegates keep the doors and windows of "Independence Hall" closed to the public." The delegates on the Articles of Confederation and the state constitutions: The Articles of Confederation was the form of national government that preceded the Federal Constitution. Most delegates felt the Articles were too weak and left the national government with too little power and the individual states with too much power. In particular, they did not believe the Articles were a sufficient check on what they saw as overly democratic state constitutions and governments. Mr. RAND (Edmund Randolph, VA) Thus we see that the confederation is incompetent to any one object for which it was instituted. The framers of it wise and great men; but human rights were the chief knowlege of the times when it was framed so far as they applied to oppose Great Britain. Requisitions for men and money had never offered their form to our assemblies. None of those vices that have since discovered themselves were apprehended. Its defects therefore no reflextion on its contrivers.