Myth:
The Constitution confirmed that America would be a fair society in which all people were treated as equals.

REALITY:
Zinn refers to the work of historian Charles Beard, who discovered that the men who created the Constitution were successful or had had a job in government. It is not the people's voice that is spoken in the Constitution, it is the voice of an elite ruling group. Women, indentured servants, slaves, men without land, the Native Americans, none of these groups were represented in the Constitution (68).

Myth:
The Constitution of America was written for the people, by the people.

REALITY:
"The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful [...] all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution" (68).
Zinn asserts that the creation of the Constitution reinforced and legalized ill treatment of certain groups and privileges for others. He believes that these practices" ... could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate by the Constitution of the United States..." (68).

Myth VS Reality