By the end of American wars of liberation, the six nations of the eastern seaboard had forged closer connections to one another than they had ever had before. Forces into a military alliance, the dominant nations had successfully fought off threats to their identities and practices and vanquished pacifist Midlanders and royalist-minded New Netherlanders. but the effort to preserve their separate cultures had produced two unexpected side effects: a loose political alliance with some characteristics of statehood, and a popular movement demanding "democracy" a prospect the national leaders found quite alarming. In the immediate postwar period, the nations confronted both development and each had its own take on how to deal with them. The compromises they negotiated or imposed profoundly shaped the American experience.
When the war began, the only structure the colonies shared was a diplomatic body, the Continental Congress. The Congress was essentially an international treaty group whose member states passed resolutions by a majority vote. If one party didn't stand by its obligations, there wasn't much the other members could do to address the problem, short of imposing their will by military force. To have the ability to achieve the latter, and to better fight off the British threat, the treaty party created a joint military command, much as the North Atlandtic Treaty Organization did a century and a half later. they called this the Continental Army and, with much inter-national bickering, it was placed under a supreme commander. George Washington