The political economy of the original constitution

[...] the approach, which rests on an "interest group" analysis of politics and economics fashionable for a time among twentieth-century historians, is anachronistic because it projects later conceptions of the organization of American political and economic life back on to the framing period. [...] how might one describe the political economy of the original Constitution? I. THE "ECONOMIC" PROVISIONS OF THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION A. The Central Concerns of the Constitution's Supporters The movement to alter the form of national government in the United States arose out of two sets of concerns that surfaced among creole elites8 between the mid-1770s and the mid-1780s as Americans fought the Revolutionary War and gained experience with state governments and the federal government of the Articles of Confederation.9 One set of concerns centered on the Articles of Confederation government's dependence on the States.10 Although the Continental Congress directed and financed the Revolutionary War effort, it had been largely dependent on the States in doing so because the Articles government needed the support of nine states to exercise any of its principal powers.11 Consequently, the Articles government never found an effective way to raise money throughout the War.