... from them because the farmers couldn't pay their debts and sending them to prison. These treatments resulted in a non-violent uprising of the farmers, Shay's Rebellion, led by a war veteran, Daniel Shay. Shay's Rebellion showed the government that the people were losing morale and the current government's laws were not effective. This caused them to consider a change in the way national ... ...

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... to the government's involvement in the economy. This concept was first introduced by Adam Smith. Involvement in the economy by the government was not mentioned in the Constitution and as Daniel Knowlton once said the government must leave the "individual enterprise untrammeled". Amasa Walker once said "the government is best which governs least". She also claimed that the law of supply ... ...

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