[KC Burke]

Perhaps you meant to refer to Shay's Rebellion instead of the Whiskey Rebellion and got them interchanged. The timing of the former, in relation to the ConCon, is more in keeping with your points and many historians regard it as a forerunner to the problems that produced the push for the Convention.

[Alberta's Child]

No, I don't think I got them confused. Shay's Rebellion, if I remember correctly, was centered in western Massachusetts (anyone else notice a trend here? -- history always tells us that mountainous regions are damned near impossible for a government to control!) and was based on a dispute over Federal payments for soldiers who served in the American Revolution. These two rebellions may have occurred at roughly the same time, but I think they were rooted in different issues.