The men that attended the Constitutional Convention were mostly lawyers, merchants and planters. Most of them had spent time at college, and generally believed that for the United States to succeed, the influence of direct democracy must be somewhat restrained by the government.
<span>Congress can pass a vetoed bill with a two-thirds majority vote in both houses.</span>
During this time, new business regulations focused on reducing corruption in big businesses and in the government, since many people thought that wealth and prosperity were wildly uneven in the US.