The Whiskey Rebellion was a reaction, using violent means, against an unjust method of taxation invented by Alexander Hamilton, which unfairly penalized farmers who chose to transport their grain in liquid form to get it to market. But suppressing the use of violent protest was probably a necessary birthing pang. The third President, Jefferson, recogniZing the injustice inherent in the whiskey tax, not only canceled Hamilton's revenue schemes, he canceled ALL internal federal taxes, limiting the national revenue to tariffs on imports and luxuriies. Would his vision had survived!! But he also provided its undoing by hugely multiplying the size of the nation--at three cents an acre, how could he refuse?--even though he knew it would strain the mettle of the Republic for it to grow so large.

It (the Whiskey Rebellion) did not really have any direct connection with the Constitution, I don't believe.

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