The revolution Legacy Unmoored?
- Didn't intend for federal gov, art. of confed.
Post war economic crisis
- Trade is depressed
- Individual debt
- Virtue under threat
- Continental Congress in debt
Shay's Rebellion
- Farmers and veterans rise up to prevent foreclosures of land in New England.
- Called for const. Convention
- Happened before federal constitution
- People formed militias to defend those who fell upon tough times
- Some felt sympathy, while others saw them as "dangerous insurgence" Primarily political leaders
- Central Massachusetts used threat of violence to shut down courts and chase away creditors and tax collectors
Part 2
- Too much liberty or Too Little liberty BOTH lead too tyranny Same with Deliberation
- Shays rebellion might have had too much deliberation since they threaten law enforcement n stuff
- Constitution of 1787 to fix this
- Federalists vs Antifederalists disagreed a lot, primarily over power of national power
- Supremacy and comity clause are important