10) "The struggle over the Constitution...can best be understood as a social one. Whatever the particular constituency of the antagonists may have been, men in 1787-1788 talked as if they were representing distinct and opposing social elements. Both the proponents and opponents of the Constitution focused throughout the debates on an essential point of political sociology that ultimately must be used to distinguish a Federalist from an Antifederalist. The quarrel was fundamentally one between aristocracy and democracy." Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of an American Republic, 1776-1787,1969Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1970). "The supporters of the United States Constitution touted it as, among many other things, the only solution to a terrible economic slump. Nearly all free Americans believed much of the responsibility for the recession of the 1780s lay with the thirteen state legislatures...The Constitution was also rooted in a struggle between taxpayers and investors in government bonds...Debate over state-level fiscal and monetary policies...divided Americans on the eve of the Constitutional Convention...The debate...hinged upon which segment of society should bear the burden of reviving the economy." Woody Holton, "Did Democracy Cause the Recession That Led to the Constitution?" 2005Woody Holton, "Did Democracy Cause the Recession That Led to the Constitution?" Journal of American History, Vol. 92, #2 (September 2005).10a) Briefly explain ONE major difference between Woods and Holton's historical interpretations of the debates over the Constitution in the late 1780s.

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