The Revolutionary Years, 1775-1789The Revolutionary Years, 17751789, reveals how the nations leaders asserted power during the fourteen crucial years from the Revolutions first shots at Lexington in April 1775 to the adoption of the Constitution in 1789. The American Revolution unfolded in two phases, winning independence and then creating a more perfect union that guaranteed representation and natural rights for all citizens. To prevail in those struggles the Founders had to tap and