 Many of them then went on to structure the Constitution of the United States, and almost all of them played a part. Some of them lost their lives. Some of them lost their homes. Some of them lost their families. There's been real revision by the political left to try to make it sound not as bad as it was for them. It was bad. Some of them ran for their lives, feared for their lives, died of despair, depression, and bankruptcy. But they prevailed.