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Traditional Historians

View the Founders as idealists motivated by liberty, reason, and compromise (e.g., John Marshall).

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Revisionist Historians

Argue the Founders acted in their own economic interests, protecting wealth and property (e.g., Charles Beard).

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Charles Beard (Revisionist)

Claimed the Constitution primarily served elite property owners and was conservative in nature.

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John Marshall (Traditional)

Believed the Constitution represented wisdom and national unity born from Enlightenment ideals.

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Beard

economic motives

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Marshall

philosophical and patriotic motives.