The high-flying oratory of the pro-Constitution side again rubbed the anti-Federalists wrong. Amos Singletary, himself an informally educated miller, worried biblically that: These lawyers, and men of learning, and moneyed men, that talk so finely, and gloss over matters so smoothly, to make us poor illiterate people swallow down the pill, expect to get into Congress themselves; they expect to be the managers of this Constitution, and get all the power and all the money into their own hands, and then they will swallow up all us little folks . . . just as the whale swallowed up Jonah. This is
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It’s ironic that it’s the working class that now supports those looking to suck at the government’s tit. Racism is a powerful emotion. . .
