Note 32 — Chapter II · A SURVEY OF ECONOMIC INTERESTS IN 1787
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Working-men in the cities were not altogether indifferent spectators. See Becker, Political Parties in New York. They would have doubtless voted with the major interests of the cities in favor of the Constitution as against the agrarians had they been enfranchised. In fact, this is what happened in New York. See below, Chap. IX.