[Roccus]

"Washington would not have suspended the constitution."
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I think that there are some who consider the use of federal troops during the Whiskey Rebellion as such. More troops were sent to PA, VA, NC, SC and GA than fought the British in the Revolution.

[Grand Old Partisan]

President Eisenhower cited President Washington sending in the troops to quash the Whiskey Rebellion as a precedent for sending in federal troops to Little Rock in part as a reaction to the Arkansas Governor using his National Guard to defy the federal government.