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This 4 page paper discusses the Constitution and the earlier Articles of Confederation, and which might appeal to a New England merchant of the colonial period. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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a New England merchant; the Declaration and Articles of Confederation and how their principles would affect the merchant; and arguments for and against ratification of the Constitution. Discussion The emphasis
on the merchant as opposed to a trader, clergyman, farmer or other colonial resident must be important or this type of occupation would not have been specified. The logical first
step then is to find out what life was like for merchants in Colonial New England. The climate was cold and the land harsh; unlike the colonies in the Chesapeake
Bay region, the New Englanders were unable to grow many crops. With farming a poor option, some turned to trading, some to the sea, and some became merchants, which enabled
them to "move up in social rank" fairly rapidly (Walton). It soon became apparent that wealth, not family connections, determined status in the colonies, and the colonial "aristocracy" was made
up of large tobacco and rice planters in the South while in the North, the highest ranks of society were filled with wealthy merchants and office holders (Walton). Merchants in
Colonial New England, then, were leaders of the community, wealthy and influential. How would they have reacted to the philosophical position of the Declaration of Independence? The Declarations most famous
statement is this: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." But the main portion of the document is a list of the reasons why the colonists felt it was their duty to
break with England. They set down a list and invited the world to read it and judge whether or not they were doing the right thing. Among the complaints they
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