This chapter focused on the historical founding of the constitution. The first founding was initially shaped by political conflicts between the British settlers and Great Britain. Among the British settlers were five different social classes; the New England merchants, the southern planters, royalists, shopkeepers, artisans, and laborers, and small farmers. The conflict over taxation trade and commerce between these groups later brought them together to form a colonial resistance against Great Britain. The resistance built within the colonies was done because the British government need to alleviate the debt it accumulated after winning the war against France by a means of raising revenue by taxing its North American colonies. This hurt
