Founding Fathers Research Paper

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Democracy is defined as a system of government that makes all people eligible to have a decision in political policies. The founding fathers were in some ways democratic reformers and in some ways not, based on our modern definition and value of each individual. The founding fathers did in fact use the idea of a nation being a representative of democracy. Which made every free man the right to vote and have a word in political decisions. They also elected representatives so that officeholders were not by heredity. But the issue is that those free men were only a group of wealthy people and slaveholders. At that time, those were the free men that had a word in the government. So based on the past people were not equal and it was acceptable
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