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How do Washington’s opinions of Shays and of Shays’ Rebellion reflect his overall philosophy of government?

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Of Shays' Rebellion, Washington wrote, “if three years ago any person had told me that at this day, I should see such a formidable rebellion against the laws & constitutions of our own making as now appears I should have thought him a bedlamite - a fit subject for a mad house.” He wrote that if the government “shrinks,

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