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"We The People" is the first line of the United States Constitution
Overall, this rebellion helped speed up the process of reform as it highlighted the key major issues to important figures such as George Washington. This then informed other important figures throughout letters, and then they held the Constitutional Convention, which caused the birth of the U.S. Constitution.
Overall, this rebellion helped speed up the process of reform as it highlighted the key major issues to important figures such as George Washington. This then informed other important figures throughout letters, and then they held the Constitutional Convention, which caused the birth of the U.S. Constitution.
“The Looking Glass for 1787” reflects how Shays’ Rebellion and other problems exposed the failures of the Articles of Confederation, especially the government’s inability to enforce laws or maintain order.
Without this event, the people would be stuck in a cycle of debt for a much longer period of time, demonstrating the severity of this event.
Without this event, the people would be stuck in a cycle of debt for a much longer period of time, demonstrating the severity of this event.
"If government shrinks or is unable to enforce its laws. anarchy and confusion must prevail "(Letter from George Washington to Henry Knox).
If the government isn't able to enforce rules people will break the rules consistently which would lead to a chaotic rebellion.
“Taxed at a rate some four times higher than in neighboring New Hampshire, a typical Massachusetts farmer was required to pay about one-third of their annual income to the state” (ThoughCo).
Farmers in Massachusetts were taxed significantly more than the nearby states. Losing a third of their income to taxes made life extremely hard.
Some of the key issues were the inability to raise an army and the inability to tax the people which were highlighted. If this rebellion didn’t occur, who knows what chaos could have happened if they had a worse rebellion occur and the government couldn’t raise an army.
Some of the key issues were the inability to raise an army and the inability to tax the people which were highlighted. If this rebellion didn’t occur, who knows what chaos could have happened if they had a worse rebellion occur and the government couldn’t raise an army.
“If your laws authorized, and your powers are adequate to the suppression of these tumults, in the first appearances of them, delay and temporizing expedients were, in my opinion improper; these are rarely well applied, and the same causes would produce similar effects in any form of government, if the powers of it are not enforced” (Letter from George Washington to Henry Knox).
The government would have collapsed if it continued to fail to enforce laws and collect taxes, showing that a government must enforce its authority to maintain power and order.
Signed by Benjamin Franklin in March 1787.
"There is great danger that it will be so, I think; unless the tottering system shall be supported by arms, and even then, a government which has no other basis than the point of the bayonet” (Founders Archives).
A government which relies on force alone will eventually crumble.
Overall, Shays Rebellion connects to the key points of Revolution, Reaction, and Reform in the aspects of the actual revolution, how it pointed out severe problems within the government, and the reform is how they switched from the Articles of Confederation to the US Constitution.
Overall, Shays Rebellion connects to the key points of Revolution, Reaction, and Reform in the aspects of the actual revolution, how it pointed out severe problems within the government, and the reform is how they switched from the Articles of Confederation to the US Constitution.
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