According to “Democracy and the Constitution” by Gordon S. Wood, he believed the constitution was a social conflict between upper-class who wanted a stronger central government. The Constitution formed a national government to acknowledge the weakness of the confederation because there were problem affecting the United States such as Barbary pirates seizing American ships since Congress did not pay necessary tributes, taxing power were weak, and the government couldn’t pay interest of its debt (269). A higher population could vote and government officials were elected in American states compared to all the other countries. American leaders saw that state assemblies were not using their powers properly. Wood stated, “Many of these laws were
