Freedom is a necessary precondition for life, and so to the oppressors who seek to enslave others, freedom will always be an obstacle for you to overcome, for yourselves, as well as for your soon-to-be oppressed victims, instead of something to respect.
On the day he bombed the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, Timothy McVeigh wore a t-shirt that bore Thomas Jefferson’s words with an image of a tree with blood dripping from its branches. These are the exact same words that Matt Bevin quoted a week ago, at the Fam Research Council Action, an absolutely despicable organization.
Kentucky is farked because of our tyrant, hedge fund wealthy bigot Matt Bevin; royally farked.
Here's some background inf to that "blood of Tyrants & Patriots" quote:
Thomas Jefferson is the one who wrote that "blood of tyrants & patriots" quote, in a letter, to James Madison when Thomas Jefferson was serving as the US ambassador to France on January 30, 1787... Jan 30, 1787 is 4 years after the Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolution, and 8 months before the illegal & secret Constitutional Covention in Philadelphia, & 2 years before George Washington would become the 18th President of the US; it was during the days of the Articles of Confederation.
The letter & subsequent quote was in regards to Shays Rebellion; Shays rebellion was when 4000 Rev. war veterans, who were having their lands and homes taken away by the war bond-holdn bankers from Boston... and most of the war bonds were concentrated with a small group of wealthy people in Boston. In order to get the full value of their war bonds, tax laws were passed. and since Daniel Shays & others were having their homes & land auctioned off, Daniel Shays & 4000 Rev war veterans started a war & there were many battles. Shays Rebellion started out as an intimidating peaceful protest by Mass county conventions, to stop courts from auctioning the war veterans' home & land off, and they would circle the courts with guns & calvery & swords & bayonets, threatening to kill the authorities who stole the American Rev. war veterans lands, cows, crops, homes, gold, silver & copper.
At one glorious moment, after the authorities told the rebels to disperse away from the courthouse, one of the Shaysites walked right up to the main commander, and put a Sprig of hemlock in his hat; and afterwards, Sprigs of hemlocks became the defining symbol of Shays rebellion.
In Rhode Island, paper money was being printed so that the farmers & ex-Rev war veterans could pay their debts off, but the talk of being paid in unsound fiat paper currency in Massachusetts didn't make the Boston war bond-holder bankers happy. They wanted the taxes to be paid with the war veterans' copper, silver & gold. That's all that would make the wealthy businessmen happy.
It was taxation without representation, and Shays & 4000 american rev war veterans were rebelling over it. Sound familiar?
Thomas Jefferson was excited about Shay's Rebellion, and Jefferson wasn't as freaked out about Shays Rebellion as Henry Knox, Samuel Adams & James Madison, & the lawyers & slave plantation owners & ship owners & New England Boston bond-holding bankers were.
Ol TJ thought that the US could use "a little rebellion now and then" and he believed a lil rebellion now and then was a good thing; TJ looked at rebellions as necessary in the political world as storms were in the physical world; a kind of cleansing process; like a forest fire that burns the debris, and fertilizes the soil for the life that survives;
"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem." a Latin phrase which means "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." Even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government, and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs. It was a medicine necessary for the sound health of government... "God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion" wrote Thomas Jefferson. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
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Daniel Shays was born in 1747 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the son of two Irish immigrants, Patrick and Margaret (Dempsey) Shays. Daniel was the second of six siblings. He spent his early years as a landless farm laborer. In 1772, he married Abigail Gilbert, with whom he settled in Brookfield, Massachusetts.
Daniel Shays was a poor farm hand when the revolution broke out. Daniel Shays joined the Continental army. Sergeant/Lieutenant Daniel Shays fought valiantly in the American Revolution, a war that allowed GW to keep on raping his 318 slaves on the thousands of acreshe stole from the native Americans & war veterans.
In 1780, John Adams borrowed $5 million from the Netherlands for war. And those bond-holders expected to be paid back.
Daniel Shays fought in the Boston campaign; Daniel Shays fought in the Battle of Lexington, Bunker Hill & Ticonderoga; Daniel Shays fought Burgoyne's invading army at Saratoga, New York, and he fought in the desperate action at Stony Point, New York. Daniel Shays had been shot n the American Revolution, he had grape shot, a load of British lead lodged in his ass. Daniel Shays was a wounded war veteran. And he wasn't paid for his services.
General Lafayette himself honored Captain Shays along with other officers under his command with a ceremonial sword as a mark of his personal esteem. But Daniel Shays was being taxed without being represented. He wasn't paid a military commission. He was being taxed by the local, state, federal officials, he was being taxed every which way, and he was taken to court twice in order to pay his bills; Daniel Shays had to sell that ceremonial sword that the Marquis de Lafayette gave him just to pay his bills.
But Daniel Shays kept the cutless sword that he used at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
After finding himself in court for nonpayment of debts, Daniel Shays saw that he wasn't the only one who was struggling.
Mothers were forced to beg in the street. One sick woman, unable to pay, had her bed taken out from under her. An Daniel Shays was looking to lose his cows, his crops, and land, he had a wife, 3 or more children, a son, 2 daughters, & all of them needed him to provide for them, and to add insult to injury, if Daniel Shays lost his land, then Daniel Shays would lose his American citizenship, since the status quo in ante bellum America was that only white male land owners could vote.
After the American War of Independence, more than half of the people in the United States were excluded from citizenship, such as native Americans, Black folks, women, and landless whites. The French revolution was a revolution, the Haitian Revolution was a revolution, the American revolution... no, not so much. It was a war for Independence, we severed our ties with Britain. It was GW's war.
Daniel Shays started participating in the so-called illegal county conventions. In one of those conventions, a man named Plough Jogger spoke his mind. Plough Jogger said:
"I have been greatly abused, have been obliged to do more than my part in the war; been loaded with class rates, town rates, province rates, Continental rates and all rates ... been pulled and hauled by sheriffs, constables and collectors, and had my cattle sold for less than they were worth.... . . . The great men are going to get all we have and I think it is time for us to rise and put a stop to it, and have no more courts, nor sheriffs, nor collectors nor lawyers..."
What brought Daniel Shays fully into the rebellion was on September 19, 1786, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts met in Worcester and indicted eleven leaders of Luke Day's rebellion, including three of Daniel Shays' friends, as "disorderly, riotous and seditious persons" who "unlawfully and by force of arms" prevented "the execution of justice and the laws of the commonwealth." The Supreme Judicial Court planned to meet again in Springfield a week later, and there was talk of Luke Day being indicted. Daniel Shays organized seven hundred armed farmers, most of them veterans of the war, and led them to Springfield. There they found a general with nine hundred soldiers and a cannon. Shays asked the general for permission to parade, which the general granted, so Shays and his men moved through the square, drums hanging and fifes blowing. As they marched, their ranks grew. Some of the militia joined, and reinforcements began coming in from the countryside. The judges postponed hearings for a day, then adjourned the court.
Daniel Shays was successful in peacefully closing the courts down and that made the elites scared beyond all redemption.
The Shaysites had tried to petition their govts, they tried to gain the favor of the political elite thru peaceful means, but the political elite were completely blind; & nobody could hold government office unless they were wealthy;
What else could Daniel Shays do?
Henry Knox wrote to GW and said: "The people who are the insurgents have never paid any, or but very little taxes. But they see the weakness of government; they feel at once their own poverty, compared with the opulent, and their own force, and they are determined to make use of the latter, in order to remedy the former. Their creed is "That the property of the United States has been protected from the confiscations of Britain by the joint exertions of all, and therefore ought to he the common properly of all. And he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy to equity and justice and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth."
Massachusetts declared martial law. Samuel Adams passed the Riot Act, which said that if the govt construed a party of 12 or more as a "negative purpose", they could be arrested, without trial; Samuel Adams said: "In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death."
Eventually, Benjamin Lincoln raised money by the rich bond-hold'n bankers & businessmen of Boston to finance an army of mercenaries, like the Pinkertons, or Blackwater, whatever their name is now, or Omar Mateen of G4S, or those security guards sikking attack dogs onto the Oceti Sakowin in North dakota, fighting to protect our water... water is the first medicine.
Benjamin Lincoln and the war bond holders had to raise their own private militia because the federal govt under the articles of confederation didn't have the jurisdiction to intervene, and the militia of Massachusetts were in solidarity with Luke Day & John Bly & Charles Rose & Daniel Shays.
General Benjamin Lincoln paid 3,000 turncoat men at Worcester to fight the rebels. Shays Rebellion would eventually be defeated in battle against these mercenaries, but it took over a year to completely subdue.
It's called Shays rebellion because a rebellion is a revolution that failed. Like Nat Turner's Rebellion; Whiskey Rebellion; Bacon's rebellion; easter rebellion; boxer rebellion; a rebellion is a failed revolution, and that was shays biggest mistake; Even though was doing what was right & good, he didn't fight a war he knew he could win; When GW illegaly rebelled against tyranny, he got his face on every single one of our dollar bills; when Shays rebelled, he lost, and got John Bly & Charles Rose killed;
4,000 men in Shays rebellion had to sign confessions that they participated in Shays rebellion and then they had to pledge allegiance to the United States.
Eighteen men, including Shays, were convicted and sentenced to death.
The war bond holders' private army crushed Shays rebellion.
Shays Rebellion was fought from August 31, 1786 to about June 1787, tho John Bly & Charles Rose were executed in December 1787.
The illegal US Constitutional Convention was held between May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; so the Constitutional Convention was held during Shays Rebellion, right at the tail end of the violent bloody struggle;
The 1787 Constitutional Convention was a secret illegal "overthrow the govt" convention, which the public wasn't allowed to attend; At that illegal 1787 Philadelphia Constitutional Convention, the 55 "demi-god" elite were extremely worried about Shay's rebellion; They were really upset about it; letters were flying back & forth between them;
The US Constitution represented the economic interests of the 55 wealthy individuals who attended. The 1787 US Constitution was a class-based document; most of the 55 "demi-gods" were lawyers & landowners & slave owners & war bond holders. They were against paper money. 55 mostly rich white men; & they wanted a govt strong enough to protect manufacturers; to protect native American land stealers; to use force to keep slavery & of ocurse, to protect the war bond holders;
James Madison, the architect of the US Constitution, wrote that the point of government is that it ought to "protect the minority of the opulent against the majority"; to "protect the minority of the opulent against the majority";
James Madison said: "The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe, — when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability." ~Statement (1787-06-26) as quoted in Notes of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787 by Robert Yates. June 26;
On September 17, 1787, the US Constitution was signed into law. Article 4 of Section 4: said "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence."
A stronger central government was set up so it was a government strong enough to suppress rebellions. To protect settlers and expansionists who move into Indian territory–a government that can raise an army, to suppress working class rebellions, to suppress slave rebellions.
After the Constitutional Convention, Thomas Jefferson was deeply concerned about some of the proposals for the new United States Constitution -- particularly the role of the executive branch, which he saw as being far too powerful.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to William S. Smith, a diplomatic official in London, on November 13, 1787; "Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? ... God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion... If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13 states independant for 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. ... What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order." Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, 13 Nov. 1787
Samuel Adams, a tyrant, had called for bloodshed of the Patriots, and that's why in December 6, 1787, after the US Constitution was written up, at an illegal convention, a convention that banned all members of the public from attending, without a Bill of Rights, John Bly & Charles Rose were hung to death.
John Bly & Charles Rose were hung to death for stealing weapons. On their last day on earth, John Bly & Charles Rose found themselves surrounded by a preacher, the militia, and a "numerous concourse of spectators". a bunch of lookie lous.
Luke Day & Daniel Shays, the leaders of Shays rebellion, would be pardoned, but they would die in poverty & obscurity.
On the day he bombed the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, Timothy McVeigh wore a t-shirt that bore Thomas Jefferson’s words with an image of a tree with blood dripping from its branches. These are the exact same words that Matt Bevin quoted a week ago, at the Fam Research Council Action, an absolutely despicable organization.
Kentucky is farked because of our tyrant, hedge fund wealthy bigot Matt Bevin; royally farked.
Here's some background inf to that "blood of Tyrants & Patriots" quote:
Thomas Jefferson is the one who wrote that "blood of tyrants & patriots" quote, in a letter, to James Madison when Thomas Jefferson was serving as the US ambassador to France on January 30, 1787... Jan 30, 1787 is 4 years after the Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolution, and 8 months before the illegal & secret Constitutional Covention in Philadelphia, & 2 years before George Washington would become the 18th President of the US; it was during the days of the Articles of Confederation.
The letter & subsequent quote was in regards to Shays Rebellion; Shays rebellion was when 4000 Rev. war veterans, who were having their lands and homes taken away by the war bond-holdn bankers from Boston... and most of the war bonds were concentrated with a small group of wealthy people in Boston. In order to get the full value of their war bonds, tax laws were passed. and since Daniel Shays & others were having their homes & land auctioned off, Daniel Shays & 4000 Rev war veterans started a war & there were many battles. Shays Rebellion started out as an intimidating peaceful protest by Mass county conventions, to stop courts from auctioning the war veterans' home & land off, and they would circle the courts with guns & calvery & swords & bayonets, threatening to kill the authorities who stole the American Rev. war veterans lands, cows, crops, homes, gold, silver & copper.
At one glorious moment, after the authorities told the rebels to disperse away from the courthouse, one of the Shaysites walked right up to the main commander, and put a Sprig of hemlock in his hat; and afterwards, Sprigs of hemlocks became the defining symbol of Shays rebellion.
In Rhode Island, paper money was being printed so that the farmers & ex-Rev war veterans could pay their debts off, but the talk of being paid in unsound fiat paper currency in Massachusetts didn't make the Boston war bond-holder bankers happy. They wanted the taxes to be paid with the war veterans' copper, silver & gold. That's all that would make the wealthy businessmen happy.
It was taxation without representation, and Shays & 4000 american rev war veterans were rebelling over it. Sound familiar?
Thomas Jefferson was excited about Shay's Rebellion, and Jefferson wasn't as freaked out about Shays Rebellion as Henry Knox, Samuel Adams & James Madison, & the lawyers & slave plantation owners & ship owners & New England Boston bond-holding bankers were.
Ol TJ thought that the US could use "a little rebellion now and then" and he believed a lil rebellion now and then was a good thing; TJ looked at rebellions as necessary in the political world as storms were in the physical world; a kind of cleansing process; like a forest fire that burns the debris, and fertilizes the soil for the life that survives;
"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem." a Latin phrase which means "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." Even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government, and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs. It was a medicine necessary for the sound health of government... "God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion" wrote Thomas Jefferson. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
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Daniel Shays was born in 1747 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the son of two Irish immigrants, Patrick and Margaret (Dempsey) Shays. Daniel was the second of six siblings. He spent his early years as a landless farm laborer. In 1772, he married Abigail Gilbert, with whom he settled in Brookfield, Massachusetts.
Daniel Shays was a poor farm hand when the revolution broke out. Daniel Shays joined the Continental army. Sergeant/Lieutenant Daniel Shays fought valiantly in the American Revolution, a war that allowed GW to keep on raping his 318 slaves on the thousands of acreshe stole from the native Americans & war veterans.
In 1780, John Adams borrowed $5 million from the Netherlands for war. And those bond-holders expected to be paid back.
Daniel Shays fought in the Boston campaign; Daniel Shays fought in the Battle of Lexington, Bunker Hill & Ticonderoga; Daniel Shays fought Burgoyne's invading army at Saratoga, New York, and he fought in the desperate action at Stony Point, New York. Daniel Shays had been shot n the American Revolution, he had grape shot, a load of British lead lodged in his ass. Daniel Shays was a wounded war veteran. And he wasn't paid for his services.
General Lafayette himself honored Captain Shays along with other officers under his command with a ceremonial sword as a mark of his personal esteem. But Daniel Shays was being taxed without being represented. He wasn't paid a military commission. He was being taxed by the local, state, federal officials, he was being taxed every which way, and he was taken to court twice in order to pay his bills; Daniel Shays had to sell that ceremonial sword that the Marquis de Lafayette gave him just to pay his bills.
But Daniel Shays kept the cutless sword that he used at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
After finding himself in court for nonpayment of debts, Daniel Shays saw that he wasn't the only one who was struggling.
Mothers were forced to beg in the street. One sick woman, unable to pay, had her bed taken out from under her. An Daniel Shays was looking to lose his cows, his crops, and land, he had a wife, 3 or more children, a son, 2 daughters, & all of them needed him to provide for them, and to add insult to injury, if Daniel Shays lost his land, then Daniel Shays would lose his American citizenship, since the status quo in ante bellum America was that only white male land owners could vote.
After the American War of Independence, more than half of the people in the United States were excluded from citizenship, such as native Americans, Black folks, women, and landless whites. The French revolution was a revolution, the Haitian Revolution was a revolution, the American revolution... no, not so much. It was a war for Independence, we severed our ties with Britain. It was GW's war.
Daniel Shays started participating in the so-called illegal county conventions. In one of those conventions, a man named Plough Jogger spoke his mind. Plough Jogger said:
"I have been greatly abused, have been obliged to do more than my part in the war; been loaded with class rates, town rates, province rates, Continental rates and all rates ... been pulled and hauled by sheriffs, constables and collectors, and had my cattle sold for less than they were worth.... . . . The great men are going to get all we have and I think it is time for us to rise and put a stop to it, and have no more courts, nor sheriffs, nor collectors nor lawyers..."
What brought Daniel Shays fully into the rebellion was on September 19, 1786, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts met in Worcester and indicted eleven leaders of Luke Day's rebellion, including three of Daniel Shays' friends, as "disorderly, riotous and seditious persons" who "unlawfully and by force of arms" prevented "the execution of justice and the laws of the commonwealth." The Supreme Judicial Court planned to meet again in Springfield a week later, and there was talk of Luke Day being indicted. Daniel Shays organized seven hundred armed farmers, most of them veterans of the war, and led them to Springfield. There they found a general with nine hundred soldiers and a cannon. Shays asked the general for permission to parade, which the general granted, so Shays and his men moved through the square, drums hanging and fifes blowing. As they marched, their ranks grew. Some of the militia joined, and reinforcements began coming in from the countryside. The judges postponed hearings for a day, then adjourned the court.
Daniel Shays was successful in peacefully closing the courts down and that made the elites scared beyond all redemption.
The Shaysites had tried to petition their govts, they tried to gain the favor of the political elite thru peaceful means, but the political elite were completely blind; & nobody could hold government office unless they were wealthy;
What else could Daniel Shays do?
Henry Knox wrote to GW and said: "The people who are the insurgents have never paid any, or but very little taxes. But they see the weakness of government; they feel at once their own poverty, compared with the opulent, and their own force, and they are determined to make use of the latter, in order to remedy the former. Their creed is "That the property of the United States has been protected from the confiscations of Britain by the joint exertions of all, and therefore ought to he the common properly of all. And he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy to equity and justice and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth."
Massachusetts declared martial law. Samuel Adams passed the Riot Act, which said that if the govt construed a party of 12 or more as a "negative purpose", they could be arrested, without trial; Samuel Adams said: "In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death."
Eventually, Benjamin Lincoln raised money by the rich bond-hold'n bankers & businessmen of Boston to finance an army of mercenaries, like the Pinkertons, or Blackwater, whatever their name is now, or Omar Mateen of G4S, or those security guards sikking attack dogs onto the Oceti Sakowin in North dakota, fighting to protect our water... water is the first medicine.
Benjamin Lincoln and the war bond holders had to raise their own private militia because the federal govt under the articles of confederation didn't have the jurisdiction to intervene, and the militia of Massachusetts were in solidarity with Luke Day & John Bly & Charles Rose & Daniel Shays.
General Benjamin Lincoln paid 3,000 turncoat men at Worcester to fight the rebels. Shays Rebellion would eventually be defeated in battle against these mercenaries, but it took over a year to completely subdue.
It's called Shays rebellion because a rebellion is a revolution that failed. Like Nat Turner's Rebellion; Whiskey Rebellion; Bacon's rebellion; easter rebellion; boxer rebellion; a rebellion is a failed revolution, and that was shays biggest mistake; Even though was doing what was right & good, he didn't fight a war he knew he could win; When GW illegaly rebelled against tyranny, he got his face on every single one of our dollar bills; when Shays rebelled, he lost, and got John Bly & Charles Rose killed;
4,000 men in Shays rebellion had to sign confessions that they participated in Shays rebellion and then they had to pledge allegiance to the United States.
Eighteen men, including Shays, were convicted and sentenced to death.
The war bond holders' private army crushed Shays rebellion.
Shays Rebellion was fought from August 31, 1786 to about June 1787, tho John Bly & Charles Rose were executed in December 1787.
The illegal US Constitutional Convention was held between May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; so the Constitutional Convention was held during Shays Rebellion, right at the tail end of the violent bloody struggle;
The 1787 Constitutional Convention was a secret illegal "overthrow the govt" convention, which the public wasn't allowed to attend; At that illegal 1787 Philadelphia Constitutional Convention, the 55 "demi-god" elite were extremely worried about Shay's rebellion; They were really upset about it; letters were flying back & forth between them;
The US Constitution represented the economic interests of the 55 wealthy individuals who attended. The 1787 US Constitution was a class-based document; most of the 55 "demi-gods" were lawyers & landowners & slave owners & war bond holders. They were against paper money. 55 mostly rich white men; & they wanted a govt strong enough to protect manufacturers; to protect native American land stealers; to use force to keep slavery & of ocurse, to protect the war bond holders;
James Madison, the architect of the US Constitution, wrote that the point of government is that it ought to "protect the minority of the opulent against the majority"; to "protect the minority of the opulent against the majority";
James Madison said: "The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe, — when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability." ~Statement (1787-06-26) as quoted in Notes of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787 by Robert Yates. June 26;
On September 17, 1787, the US Constitution was signed into law. Article 4 of Section 4: said "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence."
A stronger central government was set up so it was a government strong enough to suppress rebellions. To protect settlers and expansionists who move into Indian territory–a government that can raise an army, to suppress working class rebellions, to suppress slave rebellions.
After the Constitutional Convention, Thomas Jefferson was deeply concerned about some of the proposals for the new United States Constitution -- particularly the role of the executive branch, which he saw as being far too powerful.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to William S. Smith, a diplomatic official in London, on November 13, 1787; "Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? ... God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion... If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13 states independant for 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. ... What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order." Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, 13 Nov. 1787
Samuel Adams, a tyrant, had called for bloodshed of the Patriots, and that's why in December 6, 1787, after the US Constitution was written up, at an illegal convention, a convention that banned all members of the public from attending, without a Bill of Rights, John Bly & Charles Rose were hung to death.
John Bly & Charles Rose were hung to death for stealing weapons. On their last day on earth, John Bly & Charles Rose found themselves surrounded by a preacher, the militia, and a "numerous concourse of spectators". a bunch of lookie lous.
Luke Day & Daniel Shays, the leaders of Shays rebellion, would be pardoned, but they would die in poverty & obscurity.
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