Assembly. The members of which were elected annually for one-year terms. No legislator could serve more than four years. There was no governor or president, only an Executive Council that had few and limited powers. However, the Assembly disenfranchise the Quakers, persecuted conscientious objectors to the war, ignored the requirement of trial by juries, and manipulated the judiciary. To the delegates, this form of government, although democratic, could still be tyrannical as a result of concentrating all the powers into one set of hands.
             The Massachusetts constitution was a good deal less democratic. There was a clear separation of powers among the various branches of government; the directly elected governor could veto acts of the legislature and judges served for life. Both voters and elected officials had to be property owners. The principal
             officeholders had to swear that they were Christians. By allowing the constitution to reflect the influential portion of the population, many others were ostracized. Those that were not of a certain religion or met a certain standard of wealth was not represented and therefore not even an active citizen of their own democratic government.
             The Philadelphia convention attracted fifty-five delegates. They were the intellectual elite of their current time. The convention met during a miserably stick and hot Philadelphia summer, with the delegates pledged to keep their deliberations secret. Those who attended were for the most part young but experienced and well-educated in philosophical subjects.
             The convention produced not a revision
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