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To: Racehorse
How?

When he called up the troops to settle the Whiskey Rebellion.

196 posted on 03/03/2008 12:32:44 PM PST by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
When he called up the troops to settle the Whiskey Rebellion.

Doesn't fit. Different principle.

Washington was enforcing federal law enacted by Congress within a State. His action was against citizens within the State. He didn't take action against the State. That was 1794.

Nine years later New England threatened to secede over the Louisiana Purchase. There was nothing, in their view, to prevent them from doing precisely that. Then came threats of secession again in 1808, 1843, and 1847.

Indeed, it was New England which passed along to the South the concept of nullification. Don't believe they or anybody else believed calling forth the militia to enforce a federal tax had any effect whatsoever on their States' right to sovereignty.

The Civil War had a different, rather long lasting effect.

252 posted on 03/03/2008 2:00:32 PM PST by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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