1. Yes, the participants at the Constitutional Convention were an assembly of demigods because
each of the fifty-five delegates contained a vast amount of either political, educational, legal, or
business experience. The participants, also known as the “ Founding Fathers” and “Framers”,
were a mix of lawyers, merchants, politicians, doctors, soldiers, teachers, farmers, and inventors.
George Washington and James Madison of Virginia, Benjamin Franklin of of Pennsylvania, and
Alexander Hamilton of New York, were a few of the demigods that attended the Constitutional
Convention. Because of their vast knowledge and experiences, the Founding Fathers felt they
knew what was the best thing to do for the citizens, in other words, playing God: therefore, they
were, indeed, demigods.
2. Charles Beard’s’ theory that the Framers were motivated to write the Constitution because of
economic interests has been disregarded by other historians because they have been unable to
find a direct link showing that the Founding Fathers were motivated by wealth to establish the
Constitution. Gordon S. Wood, a historian and author, believed that, “the Framers were
representative of a class that favored order and stability over some of the more radical ideas that
had inspired the American Revolutionary War and the break with Britain”. The U.S. Constitution
is proof that the Framers favored order and stability over any potential economic interest. The
Framers originally intended to revise the Articles of Confederation, but instead wrote the
Constitution, in an effort to resolve their differences through a series of compromises to further
the basic structure of their new government.
