A Kind Of Revolutionary View

Though I read three different articles, the one I want to respond to is Zinn's "A Kind of Revolution." I felt as if he had a preconcieved notion of an elite colonial class, and then tried to find any evidence he could to support it. He seems to imply that the Continential Congressmen were wealthy, and so automatically elistists fighting for their own interests. I don't agree. I interpret their status a different way - these were well-educated men who became wealthy by being successful in their chosen fields. Then, because they were the best lawyers, doctors, etc., they were asked to represent their colony in the Continential Congress. Sending the best lawyers in particular makes sense - the Continential Contress were addressing issues of public policy. This isn't a way to supercede Zinn's ideas - I'm just proposing another idea, one that I believe makes less assumptions.