Economic Interpretation Of The Constitution Charles Beard Analysis

Charles Beard was a historian and political scientist who wrote the book “An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution.” Beard argued that “to understand the Constitution we must understand the economic interests of the national elite, which included the writers of the Constitution.” (144). In this essay, I will discuss Charles Beard and his assertion about the Founding Fathers and the Constitution. “Beard was not saying that the founders wrote the Constitution exclusively for their own benefit but so that they personally benefited immediately from its adoption and that they did not act only under the guidance of abstract principles of political science.” (144). The founders were looking for some type of personal gain in writing the Constitution