It depended on where you were. Anyone involved in politics had to have means to participate in political life. John Adams was a lawyer-farmer who did not have the wealth of a John Hancock, but he did all right. On the same social level as a small planter in Virginia (who also did a heck of his own work.) Preachers were prominent in the Cause.more so than lawyers. They didn’t have a lot of money but they had prestige. BY and large, the Revolutionary leaders was one social level lower than the English Revolutionaries of the 1640s.
Who knew soap makers were elites??? And farmers!!! Elitists!!!
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."