John Winthrop claims the leading principle of the revolution is the idea that one legislature cannot represent the different ideas of a nation for the purpose of the government and the economy. He feels a bill of rights is to be implanted in order to protect the rights of the states and its citizens. Winthrop argues that for “the happiness of the people it is necessary that there should be local laws” and that those laws “should be made by the representatives of those who are immediately subject to the want of them” (Winthrop, 1787). Through this idea, Winthrop introduces a solution to problem of a legislature for all the states. He states that the only way for a nation to function, if to grant the states and its citizens the power to establish
