A SURVER OF ECONMIC INTERESTS IN 17

A SURVER OF ECONMIC INTERESTS IN 1787
The whole theory of the economic interpretation of history rests upon the concept that social progress in general is the result of contending interests in society some favorable, others opposed, to change. On this hypothesis, we are required to discover at the very outset of the present study what classes and social groups existed in the United States just previous to the adoption of the Constitution and which of them, from the nature of their property, might have expected to benefit immediately and definitely by the overthrow of the old system and the establishment of the new. One the other hand, it must be discovered which of them might have expected more beneficial immediate results, on the whole, from the maintenance of the existing legal arrangements.