Revolutionary Generation

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There are several different ideas of what the people represented during the Revolutionary Generation. If a person was a radical, they supported change, and there was the idea that the radicals were “the government”. If a person was conservative, they either supported no change or they supported going back to a previous condition. Lastly, if someone supported both the radicals and the conservatives, they were considered a moderate. Through the arguments in the Anti-Federalist papers, it can be understood that the people involved in the changing government were radicals.
In the Constitution, the representatives would be chosen every other year by the people of the states. A person could not be a representative if they were not at least twenty-five years old, and if they did not live in the state they were elected in. Each state would have to have at least one representative, and if a spot was vacant, the executive branch, which was the President, would have to choose someone to fill the vacant spot. An example of this situation is when Adams appointed several different people to fill vacant representative spots during the end of his Presidential reign. The Anti-Federalist papers written about the election of the representatives seem to show that the men who wrote the papers were radicals. For example, a man argued that many of the representatives were men who were convicted of many crimes. This statement shows that the man who argued this did not agree with the way the representatives were elected, and the argument also observes that the man had the idea that the people could nominate people in certain districts, but then from those people, the state legislature could decide on the representatives.
A new government was formed because the people of the United States did not want to have anything to do with the British government anymore. States would be formed with each making their own constitutions except for Connecti...