The White Male Elite Delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention

Multiple Choice

The white male elite delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention:

A) believed the trade in, and enslavement of, people of African descent was an unimportant and acquiescent issue.
B) mostly all accepted the view that people of African descent could be the chattel property of others and were not human beings with citizens' rights.
C) vastly disagreed on the idea that property is the "main object of Society."
D) opposed the idea that freedom meant the protection of unequal accumulation of property, particularly property that could produce a profit in the emerging capitalist system.
E) gathered with the purpose of deconstructing the existing bourgeois-democratic government.