they had been appointed to the first constitutional convention to compose the very document that insured the nation would always be controlled by the repulsively rich who passed their fortunes down through the generations to their posterity the same way the english royalty had always done through the false rite of ascendancy which was how they were granted their huge land tracts , franchises , and other government largess that insured their wealth on the unknown continent of america while all other englishmen who came here were not .