----- Original Message ----- From: "Chip Berlet" <cberlet at igc.org>
> Hi,
>
> We actually agree mostly, I meant The Nation magazine, not the
> Nation/State but your point is otherwise well taken. I have just
> been re-reading material on Shays' Rebellion and the role it played
> in federalism and the demand for a Bill of Rights. Good to read
> right now, because it exactly set up the relationship beween the
> rights of the people v. those of the state as a perpetual conflict,
> and healthy at that.
>
> -Chip
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Shay's rebellion can also be seen as the origins of the peculiarly US type of protectionism with regards to international trade. Easier to tax 'foreigner's' doing business in the country than risk rebellion by taxing citizens.
Ian