Their movement was modelled on that of Putnam and his associates.
It was a triumph of collectivism, rather than of individualism.

The settlers were marshalled in a company, instead of moving freely by themselves, and they took a territory granted them by Congress, under certain conditions, and defended for them by the officers and troops of the regular army.
Establishment of Civil Government.
Civil government was speedily organized.

St.Clair and the judges formed the first legislature; in theory they were only permitted to adopt laws already in existence in the old States, but as a matter of fact they tried any legislative experiments they saw fit.

St.Clair was an autocrat both by military training and by political principles.

He was a man of rigid honor, and he guarded the interests of the territory with jealous integrity, but he exercised such a rigorous supervision over the acts of his subordinate colleagues, the judges, that he became involved in wrangles at the very beginning of his administration.