 The Whiskey Rebellion is a great example of how governments are not voluntary, how really the state, the conquest theory of the state applies, because you had a lot of Westerners, not just in Western Pennsylvania, but in the Western regions of all the states. You got to imagine the extremity, the very Western part of the United States during this time period was the Mississippi River. They were very upset at the federal government's supposed lack of care of them. They were upset at the Bank of the United States. They were upset at the assumption of these federal and state debts at par. They were especially upset at the federal government's whiskey tax, which was a regressive tax that fell mainly on poor Westerners, to fund some of these assumptions of state debts. Hamilton had said in the Federalist Papers that these, what were known as internal taxes, you can imagine, not tariffs, the taxes that aren't tariffs on foreign goods, they wouldn't really be used that much. They would be confined, I think in his words, to a narrow compass, sort of a narrow boundaries. Of course, that was before the Constitution had been ratified. So now he's going to decided to push for higher taxes, push for new taxes on whiskey etc. Westerners were very upset about that. There's a lot of disobedience, some people gathering some rumblings in near Pittsburgh, which is back in the day, very small town, etc. So Hamilton is urging Washington to sort of suppress the rebellion. So they basically drag about the 13,000 militiamen and then some others to Western Pennsylvania to show demonstration of the government's power. And one of the reasons they did this, I didn't explicitly mention this, but you alluded to this, was that during this time, we were trying to set our foreign relations with other governments. So there is the famous Jay's Treaty that was being in the process of being negotiated this time. And Hamilton really wanted to sort of flex the muscles of the United States to show that, hey, we're tough just like you guys because we can bully around our citizens, so to speak. It doesn't really help his case, but I think it sort of illuminates some of his motivations. The rebels disperse, Hamilton was basically in charge of the soldiers for a long period of time after Washington left. Hamilton wanted to, Hamilton and his forces, they wanted to round up some of these suspects or accused agitators. One of them was Albert Gallatin, a former anti-Federalist, Hamilton and some others. They wanted him and his supporters to be really tried. And then back then, this disloyalty of the government could be met with by execution, by death. Those don't happen, but Gallatin gets the picture and he gets kind of scared. But it's a great example of how the government, it's a great insistence of cronies and the government first assumes state debts, which benefits a lot of speculators, and they pay off these state debts by raising taxes on poor people. And these poor people resist. The government sends in the gendarmes to stamp them out, the military. And it shows that Hamilton really had, in my view, he had bigger ideas than just being a secretary of the treasury.