I think it’s pretty clear that Shay’s Rebellion lead to the rejection of the articles of confederation as a viable federal structuring document. The Whiskey Re

I think it’s pretty clear that Shay’s Rebellion lead to the rejection of the articles of confederation as a viable federal structuring document. The Whiskey Rebellion answered a different question, which is “do people think the federal government is sufficiently real that they will form a well regulated militia against other citizens of their own state — or agree to be part of a militia to go across a state border to enforce federal law in a different state —, or are states more important than the country?”. The answer was “the country is more important”, but i’ve always been pretty sure that the rest of the answer was “… because Washington asked, personally, and if it had been anyone else maybe the answer wouldn’t be the same”