In Alfred Young\u2019s essay, \u201cThe Pressure of the People on the Framers of the Constitution,\u201d he wrote about the influences from people that were not present at the Constitutional Convention.\u00a0 Young related the influences to the \u201cghosts\u201d of Thomas Paine, Abraham Yates, Daniel Shays, and Thomas Peters (150).\u00a0 At the convention, radical democracy, new men in power, rebellion, and slaves were all current issues that the delegates were familiar with and that needed to be addressed.\u00a0 Young says that the delegates dealt with these issues either with coercion or accommodation.\u00a0 Additionally, the delegates had to balance their own political views with the needs and desires of the people, as mentioned in the post (http:\/\/sites.davidson.edu\/his141\/the-constitution-the-intentions-of-the-framers-and-the-realities-of-the-new-government\/<\/a>). \u00a0\u00a0The concerns of farmers and slave rebellions were handled with coercion, and the delegates \u201cgave the national government the power to \u2018suppress insurrections\u2019 and protect the states from \u2018domestic violence\u2019\u201d (Young 151).\u00a0 This method of approaching slave revolts and other rebellions does not seem to have changed much over time.\u00a0 The difference is that now the federal government can use force to \u201csuppress insurrections,\u201d\u00a0 whereas before, the task was delegated to individual slave owners or British officials.\u00a0 The federal government later abuses this power during the Whiskey Rebellion, and they use full force to put down a relatively small revolt.<\/p>\n Also, I found the concept of a \u201c\u201dmixed government\u201d\u201d interesting (Young 150). It seems that the founding fathers were still attempting to remain connected to their British roots by striving for \u201ca perfect blend of \u2018aristocracy\u2019 and \u2018democracy\u2019\u201d (Young 151).\u00a0 Even after the revolution, the delegates showed through the Constitution that they did not perceive Britain\u2019s system as completely flawed when they strove to keep the idea of aristocracy alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Alfred Young\u2019s essay, \u201cThe Pressure of the People on the Framers of the Constitution,\u201d he wrote about the influences from people that were not present at the Constitutional Convention.\u00a0 Young related the influences to the \u201cghosts\u201d of Thomas Paine, Abraham Yates, Daniel Shays, and Thomas Peters (150).\u00a0 At the convention, radical democracy, new men … <\/p>\n