Revolutionary_Generation

Revolutionary Generation The argument that the founders of the Constitution represented radical revolutionaries who transformed American political culture from its British Colonial origins, is evident when comparing British Colonial government before the revolution, to today’s Constitution. The reason the American government was created was because American freedom could never be secure under the British crown, so the time had come to correct the “errors” in Britain’s constitution and to found new governments free of kings and hereditary rule, governments in which all officials owed their power to popular choice. Firstly, immediately following the Declaration of Independence, the first governments formed were state governments. Connecticut and Rhode Island were the only states that kept the same framework, all the other states created brand new Constitutions. What emerged from the state constitutions is the foundation for the United States Government. The Executive Branch changed tremendously, which had a lot to do with how the colonists perceived their colonial government. For the state governments, most of the Americans drafting the constitution were under the impression that the colonial government had too much power, so the state representatives took their power away and gave little power to the governor. The governor could no longer call the government, states, state, power, constitution, colonial, british, rights, people, president, because, governments, branch, united, new, natural, legislature, justice, governor, formed, federal, executive, created, appoint, wanted, under, representatives, radical, officials, longer, judiciary, given, first, electoral, didn’t, creating