John Jay writes in early 1787 that…

February 1787 CE

John Jay writes in early 1787 that the rural disturbances and the inability of the central government to fund troops in response make "the inefficiency of the Federal government [become] more and more manifest."

Henry Knox observes that the uprising in Massachusetts clearly influences local leaders who had previously opposed a strong federal government.

Some states, Massachusetts among them, delay choosing delegates to the proposed convention in Philadelphia, in part because in some ways it resembles the "extra-legal" conventions organized by the protestors before the rebellion became violent.

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