Democracy and the New Governments
How revolutionary were the new Revolutionary governments? The answer depends on the colony in which you lived. The new governments were diverse, with some colonies democratizing politics considerably (albeit for white men only) while others created new governments that looked remarkably like the old ones that had existed under British rule. Below you will find documents from two ends of the spectrum of democratization and stasis: Pennsylvania and Maryland. Your job is to determine how democratic the new governments of Pennsylvania and Maryland were based on their constitutions (edited versions of each are below) and on the reactions to the new governments in each colony.
1776 Pennsylvania Constitution