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During the Revolutionary War, the thirteen colonies’ reason for fighting the war shifted from reconciliation from Great Britain, to the want of independence mainly due to Thomas Paine’s pamphlet of Common Sense, which shunned British rule and reminded everyone what they were fighting the war for. State governments needed to be recreated in order for them to have any effect on the nation at war, and to embody the heart of the change in stances. In order for this to happen, each state needed to write up or rewrite their state’s constitution, by changing or removing any presence that Britain had had on the colonial governments before. The specific way in which the constitution had to be written in order to be the foundation for the law in the states, and the challenges of making the executive branch of state government balanced with the legislative branch affected the challenges that the states had in creating their governments.

Before the state governments had rewritten or began to write their state constitutions, there was a distinctive process that they had to go through in order for the constitution to be written. The colonial governments (at that point they were still counted as colonies) wrote up their state constitutions quite differently than during the Revolutionary War. Before, the colonial legislature wrote up the constitution, therefore amending it in such a way that would fit their needs. Stemming from one of the dissatisfactions with the British during the Revolutionary War, this caused many colonial governments to have an arbitrary rule, meaning that they changed laws in order as they saw fit based on the situation. Furthermore, this made the constitutions subject to local politics in the sense that they could be specifically manipulated or invoked. Therefore, in order to combat this injustice, the states wanted to adjust the way that the state constitutions would be written in order to make them insusceptible to politics or amends, and for this